[quote=captcha]It is the law, you have to have one. Pushed through by Home Depot and California Alarm Association.
The rationale was that 30+ people die every year from poisoning (the fact that it’s mostly campers using heaters in their tents made no difference). [/quote]
Walt Disney’s mom died from CO poisoning from a faulty furnace in a house Walt had just bought her:
Flora died in 1938 in an accident that plagued her son Walt with guilt for the rest of his life. After the success of their film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Walt and Roy presented their parents with a new home in North Hollywood, near the Disney studios in Burbank, California. Less than a month after moving in, Flora complained to Walt and Roy of problems with the gas furnace in her new home. Studio repairmen were sent to the house, but the problem was not adequately fixed. Flora wrote a letter to her daughter Ruth describing the wonderful new home, but again complaining of the fumes from the furnace. A few days later, Flora died of asphyxiation caused by the fumes at age 70.
