Huge rise in demand for carbon monoxide alarms

SALES of carbon monoxide alarms are continuing to soar, with one Irish manufacturer recording greater sales of the units in the past month than during the whole of 2009.

Shannon-based company EI Electronics, which specialises in fire safety products, have shifted more than 35,000 carbon monoxide alarms in the last three weeks.

Carbon monoxide is a colourless, odourless, poisonous gas which occurs from the incomplete burning of natural gas and materials which contain carbon such as gasoline, kerosene, oil, propane, coal or wood.