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“I randomly woke up in the middle of the night one night, completely panicked about buying a carbon monoxide detector. We had just moved into a new home, and I had no idea if our smoke detectors had them or not. I bought a plug-in carbon monoxide detector the next day for my own peace of mind. A few weeks later, it went off in the middle of the day. I opened a few windows, took the kids outside, and called the fire department. They sent a fire truck. They discovered high levels of carbon monoxide in the house. We found out it was from a faulty water heater located right behind my kids’ playroom in the basement, and the levels were high enough that it set off the detector on the second floor! I could have sent my kids down there to play and had no idea.”
“We had it replaced, and now have nest thermostats that include smoke and carbon monoxide detectors throughout the house. And I always double check the detectors in rentals when we are traveling now too.”
—mushymonster
Source: https://www.buzzfeed.com/pernellquilon/intuition-dangerous-situations
