'Who would have found us if we hadn't got out?' Chilling words of youngster saved by £20 carbon monoxide alarm
A Stourbridge family have had what they say is a 'lucky escape', crediting a carbon monoxide monitor in their home for saving their lives.
Becky Hill was with her husband Richard and two teenage sons last Wednesday at their home in Wollaston Road, Amblecote when they heard an alarm going off.
They initially thought the beeping monitor was the fire alarm but they then started feeling dizzy, sick and light-headed and called the ambulance.
All four were taken to Russells Hall Hospital and treated for inhalation - they all suffered nausea and headaches but were otherwise unharmed. Becky said it was only luck and swift action when they heard the alarm that saved the whole family.
Fire crews who attended recorded a reading of 800 parts per million of carbon monoxide fumes in her son Andrew's room - the normal evacuation level is 20.
It is thought a generator being used in an empty property next door might have been the cause of the fumes seeping through to the property - an investigation has now been launched by the Health and Safety Executive .
Becky said her son Vinny asking her "who would have found us, mum?" was the most heartbreaking thing she has ever heard. She said she dreaded to think what would have happened had the alarm not gone off.
