Family evacuate after carbon monoxide fills home near Truro
Firefighters say the residents made it out safely thanks to an alarm
A family has had to evacuate after carbon monoxide filled their home near Truro.
Firefighters got the shout to Chacewater just after 9.30pm last night (3rd October).
Crews say the residents made it out of the property on Station Road thanks to an alarm.
A gas detector registered 300 parts per million and firefighters think it was caused by the faulty flue of an oil boiler.
Cornwall Fire and Rescue Service said: "One crew from Tolvaddon was mobilised to a property where the carbon monoxide alarm had sounded.
"The residents had evacuated the property on crews arrival, using a gas detector firefighters identified 300 parts per million of carbon monoxide in the property.
"Firefighters identified the source of the gas as a faulty flue of an oil boiler.
"Firefighters isolated the boiler and ventilated the property until the gas monitor was reading 0 parts per million of carbon monoxide."