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<blockquote data-quote="SoonerP226" data-source="post: 3919229" data-attributes="member: 26737"><p>We had one. As I recall, it didn’t have a wick, just some kind of contraption where the combustion took place. We never had any trouble with CO (it was sitting on the bricks in front of the fireplace, so it got its fresh air from the same place the fireplace did), but there might’ve been a few minor burns from getting too close to it.</p><p></p><p>Randolph Mantooth told a story about nearly dying from CO poisoning while he was on the series <em>Emergency!</em> back in the ‘70s. He said he’d wake up feeling lousy, like he was sick, but by the time he got to work he’d been feeling better. Unbeknownst to him, there was a problem with his furnace, and the only thing keeping him alive was the fact that he kept a window partially open while he slept.</p><p></p><p>After a few nights of this, he decided that there must’ve been something out that he was allergic to, so he closed the window.</p><p></p><p>Predictably, things got bad for him that night, bad enough that he made an emergency call. The first responder was a cop who assumed that he was just stoned on something, but the second guy in was a paramedic who wanted to take him to the hospital.</p><p></p><p>Mantooth said the paramedic saved his life because while they were arguing about where he was going to be taken, he got Mantooth off the floor (where the cop had found and left him) and onto the couch (or maybe onto the gurney), which got him out of the CO...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SoonerP226, post: 3919229, member: 26737"] We had one. As I recall, it didn’t have a wick, just some kind of contraption where the combustion took place. We never had any trouble with CO (it was sitting on the bricks in front of the fireplace, so it got its fresh air from the same place the fireplace did), but there might’ve been a few minor burns from getting too close to it. Randolph Mantooth told a story about nearly dying from CO poisoning while he was on the series [I]Emergency![/I] back in the ‘70s. He said he’d wake up feeling lousy, like he was sick, but by the time he got to work he’d been feeling better. Unbeknownst to him, there was a problem with his furnace, and the only thing keeping him alive was the fact that he kept a window partially open while he slept. After a few nights of this, he decided that there must’ve been something out that he was allergic to, so he closed the window. Predictably, things got bad for him that night, bad enough that he made an emergency call. The first responder was a cop who assumed that he was just stoned on something, but the second guy in was a paramedic who wanted to take him to the hospital. Mantooth said the paramedic saved his life because while they were arguing about where he was going to be taken, he got Mantooth off the floor (where the cop had found and left him) and onto the couch (or maybe onto the gurney), which got him out of the CO... [/QUOTE]
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