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Winter heating season brings worries about more housefires, carbon monoxide poisoning
Posted: 11.26.2012 at 6:35 PM
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Checking a fireplace yearly will keep it safe, and for older homes there should also be occasional video inspections of the inside of the chimney

 

 / Photojournalist Brian Erb
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Warning: fireplaces not designed to be heating source

With colder weather, firefighters are seeing more calls for heating-related fires, and for people overcome by carbon monixide.

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