Stacey Rodgers’s wake-up call for Huddersfield University students about carbon monoxide poisoning
Oct 1 2010 by Sam Casey, Huddersfield Daily Examiner
Stacey Rodgers’s wake-up call for Huddersfield University students about carbon monoxide poisoning
STUDENTS have been warned about the dangers of carbon monoxide poisoning by a mother who lost her son to the “silent killer.”
Stacey Rodgers was at a student support fair held at Huddersfield University yesterday to hand out advice, urge students to have carbon monoxide detectors fitted and warn them to make sure their landlords are sticking to the law.
The 33-year-old Deighton woman runs the Dominic Rodgers Trust, set up in memory of her son.
Dominic was 10 when he died from carbon monoxide poisoning at the family home in Spaines Road, Fartown, in February 2004.
Fumes from a neighbour’s faulty boiler had seeped into his bedroom as he slept.
Stacey said: “Unless you have a detector, you won’t know anything about it.
“That’s why they call it the silent killer. The consequences can be deadly.
“Students could be being poisoned as we speak.”
