The Thursday before Christmas we had a big tragedy averted. The stomach flu had been going through Eric and Melissa's family, and my mom and dad and brother Mike all had it. Thursday night the carbon monoxide detector started going off, and it never had gone off before. Eric went out and bought a new filter and it still kept doing it, which at first they were going to just ignore. But thank heavens Melissa called 911 and they told them to leave the house immediately so they came down to our house. They sent the fire dept, and the emt's and as soon as they went in my parent's garage their sensors could tell there was carbon monoxide. It was the highest in the basement where Eric, Melissa, Wyatt and the triplets live. The emt's checked everyone in the houses oxygen levels because Ryder had thrown up 5 times on the way to our house, and all the kids and Eric and Melissa had high numbers that needed oxygen. We took all the kids to the ER where they were fine, just had to get poked alot to get their blood drawn and had to have oxygen. They found out it was the water heater that was malfunctioning and causing the carbon monoxide, so my dad put in new water heaters. I just know that if they didn't have a carbon monoxide detector, they would have gone to bed feeling sick and thinking it was just still the stomach flu and in the morning everyone would have been dead. This Christmas we are just SO grateful to have our family, no present under the tree could ever compare with having our family still with us.
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