Don't take an 'out' BBQ in to a tent/ boat cabin

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NEVER take a BBQ that has been 'out' for a few hours into a tent for warmth.

The carbon monoxide will kill you.

This type of death is VERY common and I just want to spread awareness

The BBQ continues to give off carbon monoxide for hours after going 'out'

You need ventilation for gas cooking stoves and gas heaters too

Thank you for this post as common sense to have gone out the windows these days, i can't believe people need to be told but yes it kills

Thanks OP. I was glad when the briefing when we hired a boat recently mentioned this issue - we knew but it’s not obvious to most people.

Meant to add - In fact, we’d taken a CO alarm with us - not because we’d any intention of using bbqs but in case we ended up moored near to someone else using one or running their engine. It’s probably a good idea to take one camping, having just read the link about deaths due to bbqs or other devices such as a generator outside tents.

I wouldn’t even use any kind of camping cooking equipment near the tent. It happened to my friend, cooking with it just outside the tent. She died at 18. Scared the shit out of me.

Surely it says so on the item, i.e not be used inside or under cover.

It says that on every burner, BBQ and bag of BBQ fuel I've ever seen. TBF I'm in Australia, where the rules might well be different.

I’ve never noticed that but to be honest even if it did I’d assume due to fire risk not carbon monoxide possibly.

i did know about this though due to previous cases. Most big campsites now have posters up.

also if you have a caravan or camper van please have a carbon monoxide alarm, ideally two. My life was saved by mine in my caravan but I was quite poorly.

OP is taking about after they have been used though, where people think they are safe

This is pretty chilling (excuse the phrase) on one of our first camping trips together, (about 23 years ago,) me and DH brought the bbq in overnight to keep our small 2 man tent warm. It was years later that i read about the risks of carbon monoxide poisoning, very sobering. We were very lucky

I think some of the tragedies may have been people wild camping.

Well reported op, just adding that every home should have a couple of alarms set up and boilers and gas fires should be serviced every year.

Absolutely. My dad who was a paramedic told me only a few weeks ago about a job he went to years ago (because we were driving past the campsite) of a young boy who died from this when it started raining so the parents took the bbq into the tent. My dad remembered it well as it was such an upsetting case for him.

I think it's easier to forget now tents are bigger and often with kitchen areas now days

We've been tempted in the horrendous rain to cook in our porch, (under cover but doesn't feel in the tent) but i knew stories of similar tragedies.

Like a previous op, we once had a bbq close to the door that the wind definitely impacted the tent and made us woozy when we went to bed. The person with the bbq was sat outside, but clearly not far enough away.

I doubt it's often people having them in sleeping areas but simply in the main compartment (which can be huge!) Or in porches too close to sleeping areas with poor ventilation.

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