Carbon monoxide during the heating season 2020-2021

During the heating season, cases of carbon monoxide poisoning became more frequent.
This can happen imperceptibly, because it has no color, no smell. Poisoning can be obtained not only during a fire (CO is formed in the air as a result of combustion), but also with poor ventilation, in garages, especially if you leave the engine not turned off in a small room. There are frequent cases of carbon monoxide poisoning with untimely stove dampers or in the absence of a normally circulating exhaust from gas columns. The first signs of such poisoning are headache, dizziness, lacrimation, cough, nausea, vomiting. With moderate poisoning, drowsiness appears. At high concentration, loss of consciousness and paralysis occurs. And if the concentration of gas in the air is more than 1.2%, a person dies in a few seconds.

The reason for carbon monoxide poisoning is also a violation of the rules for the operation of stoves.

In order not to get carbon monoxide poisoning by the staff of the emergency response department together with the PCh-30 s. Kurchum and PP-45 s. Markakol, Kurchum district, 4499 household rounds were carried out with a total coverage of 5262 people, 4499 leaflets were distributed.

Employees of the Department of Emergency Situations of the Kurchum District remind that you must not prematurely close the stove damper (until the coals are completely burnt out). At the same time, you need to heat the stove at least two hours before going to bed. Do not use gas appliances and appliances (for example, gas stoves) for heating premises. An open flame burns out oxygen in the room, and it becomes insufficient for normal operation of the burners. Due to the lack of oxygen, the gas burns out, carbon monoxide is not completely formed. Staying in a room containing 0.2% carbon monoxide for 1 hour is harmful to health, and if it contains 0.5% carbon monoxide, being indoors for 5 minutes is life-threatening.

Department of Emergency Situations of the Kurchum region