Risk of carbon monoxide?

[firealarmmum]

Posting for traffic. This evening one of my toddler's plastic plates caught fire after it got left on top of the hob and the hob was accidentally turned on (I think someone knocked the knob).

Long story short but my DS bedtime was interrupted by two smoke alarms and I came downstairs to find a lot of thick smoke and flames on the hob. Scary but thankfully our smoke alarms were all working - thank goodness.

Anyway, now I've had a chance to get DD down and calm down a bit, and thank our lucky stars it wasn't worse.

The plate in question was "BPA-free" but the smoke smelled horrible. Is there a risk of carbon monoxide poisoning? I opened all the doors and windows afterwards for a while.

I'm just starting to worry as DD is sleeping. Going to check in her but is she at risk? I keep smelling the horrible smell but not sure if it's psychological now as I breathed it in and it got in my hair and clothes.

Second, less important question but does anyone know how to get melted plastic off a glass hob?

Thank you!

Very unlikely to be carbon monoxide generated from the fire. Only normally produced during incomplete combustion when there is poor oxygen supply ie confined space. I'd be more worried about that toxic fumes the plastic has produced, but again unlikely to do any serious damage for something as small as a plate.

Also carbon monoxide is odourless

Very unlikely to be carbon monoxide poisoning, but here are symptoms if you're concerned

www.nhs.uk/conditions/carbon-monoxide-poisoning/

Ok thank you. Yes definitely an odour. I'm hoping as I kept my DS upstairs that the fumes wouldn't have reached his room or been too strong. I also opened the windows upstairs and on the landing outside his room, though not inside his room as it would be too cold.

Carbon monoxide specifically, probably not.

General nasties in the smoke, quite possible. Anything with visible smoke/soot deposits needs appropriate cleaning and some things may need to be destroyed. (I don't know just how bad the smoke was obviously.) Nobody is likely to drop dead tomorrow but if it's not properly dealt with it's a health hazard.