Carbon monoxide during the heating season 2021-2022

During the heating period, cases of carbon monoxide poisoning became more frequent.
This can happen imperceptibly, because it has neither color nor smell. Poisoning can be obtained not only in case of 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 running in a small room. There are frequent cases of carbon monoxide poisoning with untimely closed stove dampers or in the absence of a normally circulating exhaust from gas water heaters. The first signs of such poisoning are headache, dizziness, lacrimation, cough, nausea, and vomiting. With moderate poisoning, drowsiness appears. At high concentrations, 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 cause of carbon monoxide poisoning is also a violation of the rules for operating furnaces.
In order not to get carbon monoxide poisoning, employees of the ES, together with PCh-30 and PCh-45 of the Kurchum district, conduct door-to-door rounds in the residential sector.
Employees of the Department for Emergency Situations of the Kurchum region remind that
do not prematurely close the damper of the furnaces (until the coals are completely
burn out). At the same time, you need to heat the stove at least two hours before going to bed. Do not use gas household appliances and devices (for example, gas stoves) for space heating. An open flame burns out the oxygen in the room, and it becomes insufficient for the normal operation of the burners. Due to the lack of oxygen, the gas does not burn completely, carbon monoxide is formed. Staying in a room with air containing 0.2% carbon monoxide for 1 hour is harmful to health, and with a content of 0.5% carbon monoxide, being in a room for 5 minutes is life-threatening.

ES Engineer of the Kurchum region
senior lieutenant of civil protection Mұқan T.A.