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Stove left on? Read what you should do below.
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Gas Stoves, Gas Appliances and Deadly Odorless Carbon Monoxide
Left gas stove on? Below are many answers to questions you may have about natural gas safety and natural gas problems.
Natural gas is abundant, very clean, reliable and a safe cooking and heating fuel. Natural gas burns clean when appliances are operating efficiently, . Your natural gas appliance should produce a blue flame. If your appliance or appliances produce a yellow flame instead of a blue flame, it is not operating efficiently or it may not be vented properly. The afore mentioned conditions can cause Carbon monoxide to be produced, therefore always be mindful of your gas burning equipment.
Carbon monoxide (CO) is deadly poisonous odorless gas. CO is a gas that is odorless and colorless and can cause serious illness or, in some circumstances, cause death. Carbon monoxide is formed when fuel does not completely burn. Be certain that your gas appliances are properly installed and working to avoid Carbon Monoxide dangers. Also be certain that your appliances are always cleaned, well maintained and vented as per the manufacturers instructions or international mechanical / plumbing code rules.
Appliances that are not burning the gas fuel properly can release ODORLESS CO, and the smell of rotten eggs will NOT be evident. The orderless CO can be released by improperly vented cooking appliances, gas water heaters, automobile exhaust, choked or blocked fireplace chimney flues and other malfunctioning gas fuel-burning appliances, hence see manufacturers instructions or international mechanical / plumbing code for details on proper installation and maintenance.
Indicators that CO may be in your home or building include:
- Do you have Black sooty material around or near registers, appliance vents, or flues?
- Make sure your fireplace chimney is drafting correctly.
- Mositure build up on windows (the condensation on windows can also be a result of a humidifier);
- You should see a blue flame. You see a yellow flame ( when the flame should be blue) ;
- An Unexplained illness in the family, or a sudden death of a pet may indicate a CO problem.
We Thank Oklahoma gas for some of the source material: Oklahoma Natural Gas
I Smell Gas ! – “Remember natural gas can cause an explosion”
Natural gas is oderless, so a chemical is added to help you detect its presence. This additive chemical is called mercaptan. Mercaptan smells much like rotten eggs, however, not all CO can be detected buy the smell of Mercaptan, above all it is paramount that you have CO detectors in place.
- If you smell mercaptan (rotten egg smell) or hear a hissing noise, you should leave the premises and notify others in person – (not by phone) – to leave the premises.
- Do not use electrical switches or applainces. Use only your cell phone. Electrical currents in switches and land line telephones can create a spark and possible explosion.
- Leave the potentially dangerous building and call your utility company, fire department or town fire inspector to report a gas leak.
- Do not go into the building until an professional or town official familiar with the situation explicitly tells you it is safe to go back into the building.
- If your gas has been shut off by the utility company or fire department, do not turn the gas back on without a qualified person to perform this task.
Thanks to Oklahoma gas for some of the source material: Oklahoma Natural Gas
It is not safe to leave the gas oven, range or stove unattended while cooking!
The US Fire Administration clearly recommends not leaving cooking appliances unattended when no one is home.
Statistics from the years between 2006-2010 the annual averages:
- Unattended cooking is the leading contributing factor in residential cooking fires.
- Nearly 2/3 (68%) of residential cooking fires started with the cooking of food.
- Less than 1% of these fires caused clothing to be the first item to be ignited. These incidents accounted for 16% of fire deaths related to cooking.
- Ranges were the largest share (56%) of home cooking fire incidents. Ovens only accounted for 15.7%.
- Almost Three of every five people (56.5%) reported non-fatal home cooking fire injuries occurred when the victims tried to fight the fire themselves.
- The greatest risk of fire is frying.
- The peak day in America for home cooking fires is, yes you guessed it: Thanksgiving.
Below is a quote from a news story from the Yuma Fire Department Fire Marshal
“The number one place that fire occur in the home is in the kitchen. The number one reason is unattended cooking. So one of the first safety tips I can give somebody is to watch what they heat and always stay in the kitchen when they have the stove or oven on.”
News stories focus on tips about kitchen fire prevention and focus on awareness, however few to none ever provide any actual product that solves the problem.
Awareness and advice is good, however, sometimes we need more than just awareness to help prevent kitchen fires, therefore we need a stove alarm or stove reminder. We Use BurnerAlert Stove Sensor and Stove Alert.
Source: kyma.com
These are some of the questions about leaving your gas stove on unattended you will find on the internet.
- “What would happen if you left a gas stove on unattended for several hours?”
- “Left gas stove burner on for four hours?”
- “I left the Gas Stove On for (4 Hours)?”
- “My sister accidentally left the gas stove on?”
- “What to do if the gas stove has been left on for more than 5 hours?”
- “Stove gas left on for about 20 minutes, am I in danger?”
- “When I was boiling water I forgot about it and it evaporated…but am I in any danger?”
- “I Left my stove on for 15 hours!”
- “Help! My Forgetful Roommate Doesn’t Turn Off the Stove! …How do we get this new cook to not be forgetful and keep us all safe?”
- “Is it safe that I left gas stove on for 3 hours?”
- “I left gas stove on with flame? “
- “left gas stove on for 2 hours?”
Here are some of the answers you will find on the internet:
- “Nothing will happen.”
- “Nothing will happen, except you will waste some electricity or gas.”
- “I Never did this one first hand. I suspect, however, you’ll simply waste a lot of gas or electricity.”
- “You’ll very likely will die from smoke inhalation (assuming you’re a very heavy sleeper or were knocked unconscious). Long before that, however, the smoke filling your entire house will be a tell-tale sign that something is terribly wrong.”
- “Force yourself to learn to always shut off the burner BEFORE removing a pan from the stove or getting food out of the pot”
- “Yes you should now be fine, it certainly would have ventilated by now, but in you don’t have a CO (carbon monoxide) sensor then get one.”
- “It is dangerous to use ANY electrical appliance in the presence of gas.”
- “Call the gas company ASAP. “
- “Go ahead and light a candle. It will make the house smell fresh. “
- “nothing would happen to u cause of that. dont worry”
- “DO NOT light any matches, etc. Call the fire dept. to come ventilate the house,…”
- “Gina, yikes! This is definitely scary. We’ve forgotten to turn off the oven plenty of times, and that’s bad enough, but the stove is even worse. Can you hang a reminder note on the front door, perhaps? Or above the stove?”
Our blog is to provide answers about leaving the gas stove “ON” unattend
The BurnerAlert blog assembled the most common internet questions about “forgetting my gas stove was on” and the most common answers. If you have forgot the stove was on, you are not alone. Over 8 million people in the United States each year forget and most incidents result in minor non-consequential mishaps. However 100’s of thousands of these incidents become major fires and worse. Forgetting the stove is “ON” is more a result of our lifestyle than having memory loss. Our lifestyle of multi-tasking sets the conditions for each of us to overlook and forget something. If this has happened to you or a friend, you are not alone and there is a simple solution to help remind you your stove is “ON”. That solution is called BurnerAlert. SeeBurnerAlert FAQ’s for more details.
Our list of questions and answers regarding a search on the internet using “gas stove left on”
I did research on the internet about stove safety and what happens when you leav the ags stove on. I used keywords or phrases like “gas stove left on” or “gas stove left on with flame” or “left stove on”. There were 1,580,000 results for “gas stove left on”. The leading cause of residential home fires is “unattended cooking”. My internet search demonstrates the problem of “forgetting to turn off the gas stove” is a top home safety concern.
Most questions are about forgetting or human error and most answers are about how dangerous the situation may or may not be. A few answers provid some simple reminder techniques to avoid forgetting, but none offered a real 100% effective solution.
NONE of the answers however provided a REAL PRACTICAL solution to the pandemic problem of forgetting your gas stove is on. Now there is a very inexpensive solution to the problem of unattended cooking, and it is called BurnerAlert Stove Alarm Stove reminder. I use BurnerAlert to gently remind me my gas stove was left on accidentally. BurnerAlert FAQ’s. Add BurnerAlert to as many stoves knobs as you typically use each day. If you use only knob on your stove, then buy one BurnerAlert, if you are using typically two knobs then buy two BurnerAlerts. BurnerAlert Stove Alarm is inexpensive and effective. See stoves with BurnerAlert here.
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