Carbon monoxide detectors to be mandatory in all Manitoba homes
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This article was published 26/12/2010 (5377 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
WINNIPEG — Every home in Manitoba will be required to install a carbon-monoxide detector by April.
The province will be the first in Canada to mandate the inexpensive life-saving devices, a government spokeswoman confirmed.
Manitoba’s Building Standards Board approved amendments that require battery-operated or hard-wired detectors for the poisonous gas be installed in existing homes. New home construction will require hard-wired CO detectors.
Some owners of older homes currently have plug-in detectors that will not meet the new standards.
Six Winnipeggers narrowly survived carbon-monoxide poisoning last week. A former Ontario firefighter is using the near-tragedy to educate Canadians on the silent killer’s dangers.
“If I only get one message across, it is to get a CO detector, or buy a detector for someone you love,” said John Gignac, who established the Hawkins-Gignac Foundation for CO Education after carbon monoxide poisoning took the lives of his niece and her family in December 2008.
“What better Christmas gift could you give? It would make you feel pretty good if you saved your family’s lives.”
The Winnipeg case involved two families living in an Alfred Avenue home. They managed to escape their home on Dec. 22, but were all sent to hospital suffering from carbon-monoxide poisoning
Manitoba Hydro spokesman Glenn Schneider said the Winnipeg Fire Paramedic Service found extremely high levels of carbon monoxide inside the home. The problem was traced to a defective furnace vent or valve.
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