Carbon Monoxide alarm went off now what?

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Mal

I live in an apartment and I woke up this morning to my carbon monoxide alarm beeping throughout my house. The first thing I did was call the apartment manager thinkinghe would call the fire department. He sent over some guy that walked around the house and replaced the alarm. I opened the windows. The guy that came over saidhe smelt something burning but you cant smell carbon monoxide. The new alarm is not going off. Should I just leave it alone unless the new alarm starts to go off?

Answer
Did the guy test the new alarm after he installed it? Does it have batteries in it? The old detector could have been old and went bad. If you have pets & won't be home all day, I'd call the fire department (on the non-emergency number) & have them check the place out so you don't have dead pets when you come home from work. If you are going to be home all day listen for the alarm going off again, and watch to see if you get a headache or start feeling lightheaded/woozy. Opening up the windows could have just aired out original build-up (if there was carbon monoxide), so be on alert the next day or two.

Which alarm is out of batteries?

Sam

I'm not sure if my fire alarm or carbon monoxide is out of batteries.

One of them is beeping but there is NO light flashing on either of them, so I'm not sure which one it is.

Answer
Batteries are inexpensive. It would be a good idea to change batteries on both. Normally the fire alarm is the first to be the noisy one; better to be safe & change batteries on all.

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