Carbon monoxide poisoning from using a generator indoors can „kill you in minutes,“ the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission warns.
knocked out power to all of and was strong enough to disrupt power to more than 100,000 people on Florida’s Gulf Coast on Wednesday morning before it even made landfall. With that disruption comes a need for generators, but officials are warning people to take extra precautions to avoid a potentially fatal situation.
National Weather Service Director Ken Graham said during a press briefing on Wednesday morning that generators can be just as – if not more – dangerous than the effects of hurricanes.
„We’ve seen over the last couple of years in some of these big hurricanes, including Hurricane Laura that hit Louisiana, that there were more fatalities afterwards associated with generators than there was from similar storm surge of 16 to 18 feet,“ he said.
2020’s Hurricane Laura resulted in the deaths of 15 people, including eight people who died from carbon monoxide poisoning from their generator.
