GRANITEVILLE, S.C. (WJBF) – A local family says their lives were likely saved by a carbon monoxide detector.
Each year at least 420 people, in the U.S., die due to carbon monoxide poisoning, but one local family was saved from being part of that statistic by having a carbon monoxide detector in their home.
“Upon notification of the CPI Security System, they advised me to go outside because the house was detecting carbon monoxide.” Homeowner Alexis Williams said.
“If you have any children or pets, go ahead and exit the home, and if it’s cold, go ahead and exit the home and just close all the doors. I’m gonna have them come out,” Tee’Kay Smith said during the conversation between her and Williams.
Alexis Williams says an incident — where her carbon monoxide detector alerted her of too much of the gas in her home — served as a wakeup call, and she warns people about the importance of having a detector.
“We didn’t taste it, we didn’t hear it, and we didn’t smell it. We felt perfectly fine, and neither one of us were sick. Yet, we had deadly levels, and we were advised that we could have died in less than 45 minutes if we were not advised to go outside,” Williams said.