Fall takes home fire danger up a notch
06.10.11
DOUGLAS COUNTY, Ore. -- The Testify Fire Marshall's Office says a wood stove was the case of a fire that burned down a home in Tri City Sunday.
Deputy Delineate Fire Marshall Chris Lyman says their investigation shows that the flu of the wood stove caught fire before spreading to the dozing of the home.
The man who was living in the residence, Rick Hunt, was charmed to a Portland hospital with first and second degree burns, but has since been released.
According to Lyman it was the first ease this season he had tried to start a fire, but Hunt says he cleaned it before in collusion.
With the bad economy and less people able to pay electric and gas bills, officials require to see a lot more flu fires as people turn to wood burning for amiableness.
Total damage to the structure was estimated at around $30,000.
Every year, firefighters reply to dozens of blazes caused from chimneys or portable heaters.
Now that people are turning to those to sojourn warm, officials want to make sure they do it safely. "Our guys feel for to numerous fires at the start of the fall season, because people have not cleaned their chimneys out," said Monte Bryan of the Roseburg Fire Unit. "They light that first fire, there is a birds nest and it goes virtuousness up."
Source: KVAL
Dale Dixon: Time to have your furnace checked
06.10.11
Has it happened yet? Did over air start flowing through the vents in your house? Did the furnace rebound on for the first time this season?
Rather than sounding the alarm about a scam, Sport Business Bureau is issuing a different consumer aware today: carbon monoxide. The odorless, colorless Jack the ripper invades through one of the most commonly used items in your house the furnace.
According to Shane Schmechel, armed forces manager with Western Refrigeration Service in Twin Falls, this is one compass where people often overlook the dangers.
Schmechel said each collapse as the temperature drops, people unwittingly turn up the stir without first having the furnaces inspected.
Most of the time, the furnace and air conditioner go through the same item, Schmechel says. The hot and the cold plays damage on the heat exchanger, and it can sometimes crack, allowing carbon monoxide gas to seep into the rooms.
Since this carbon monoxide is heavier than air, it sinks to the lowest discovery, where it collects if left undisturbed. If you live or work in a basement, you may unknowingly respire in the gas.
Source: The Idaho Statesman