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Ralph Mowery

In article , says...

Each year it seems I read where some idiot is trying to heat their home
with their gas oven and dies from carbon monoxide.

This woman I know found her friend dead because she did that.
Her furnace quit so she turned on the oven .

My question. Gas stoves don't usually have much CO generated...after all
we can have the oven and burners on all day long and no one ever dies
cooking.

Why do people die of CO if they heat their house with the stove?

Partly because the stove is on longer and if the oven door is open the
flames may not burn correctly and produce more CO.

Along another item, several local people in a house was taken to the
hospital due to running a generator in the house. The electricity had
been turned off by the power company. I can see some not thinking about
the stove as it is already in the house, but not the generator.