Carbon Monoxide poisoning

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(21 June 2018, 23:30)LAC Wrote: Yes I have a detector and camping stoves which if I use indoors I ventilate the area well and for some time after use. Im talking about the space heaters so if you need to ventilate it makes the space cold kind of self defeating isnt it? So whats the point of them?

It is not just the space heaters that provide gasses, any source of combustion will do the same, even a campfire in your tee-pee without ventilation or the fireplace at home if the flue is defective.

In larger structures there is usually enough air flow to displace the fumes and replace the consumed oxygen, but in a small air tight/water tight tent or shelter, or even a tightly closed small room, monoxide will build up dangerously fast.

You do not have to throw one whole side of the shelter open, just a little air in and out as ventilation is sufficient.

One place I lived a whole family of 6 was removed from a truck bed camper, all of them dead, due to attempting to heat using a charcoal brazier inside the caravan.

In fact, most of the cases I remember were not campers in tents, they were people one would consider "homeless" that were attempting to live in their vehicles or vans using makeshift hobo stoves or heaters.

And by far the most fatalities are in peoples' homes, where the silent killer is due to insufficient venting, clogged flues, and lack of a monoxide shut off system. You shut that house up tight to save money and get cozy and it bites you in the @$$.