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Carbon Monoxide Gas is another dangerous intruder…
It’s a deadly and visibly undetectable…
That’s why Countryside wants you covered.

Countryside offers a few different carbon monoxide detectors, which have the capabilities of being monitored and integrated easily into most new or existing systems. The same system that guards your home's security can also guard your home against carbon monoxide. Please click the following links to view some of the carbon monoxide detectors that we can provide.

Wired Carbon Monoxide Detectors

Wireless Carbon Monoxide Detectors

Combination Carbon Monoxide/Smoke Detectors

Countryside has a large stock of alarm products at our Central Station.
If you need a product, then we will be happy to provide it for you
as quickly as possible.

When Carbon Monoxide is sensed the CO detector will send a message to your control panel and evacuation horns will sound. The panel then relays the emergency signal to Countryside's 24hr monitoring station where a dispatcher will call the residence and notify the local fire department, so that help is on the way whether you are home or away.

You may already have a battery-operated or hard wired
carbon monoxide detector in your home,
but how do they compare to a monitored system?

There are two major problems with battery operated detectors.

First, they are rarely connected to other detectors, remote warning devices or a central monitoring station. Therefore, if they are located outside a bedroom, they may not be heard by a sound sleeper, especially if the bedroom door is closed of just partially open. Also, depending on where the detector is located in the property, the detector may be out of hearing range of the residents.
A second problem with battery operated detectors is that homeowners frequently fail to replace the batteries as often as needed; therefore the detectors will not work! Too many carbon monoxide deaths occur in homes where detectors fail to function because their batteries are dead, disconnected, or removed.

Many AC powered detectors are not connected to other detectors or remote warning devices. Even those that are connected to other devices can only provide a local warning of carbon monoxide in the air. If no one is home, this deadly gas can fill your home without anyone taking action to protect you, your family or your pets for when you return.

When located on all levels of a residence and in all bedrooms, monitored detectors provide the best kind of early warning fire protection. If monitored detectors sense carbon monoxide in the air, they signal a full alarm at the residence, which activates all evacuation horns throughout a residence and sends an alarm signal to a our central station. As an additional feature, these monitored detectors provide both an AC primary power supply and a rechargeable back up battery. Monitored carbon monoxide detectors provide protection when you are home and away.

Carbon monoxide (CO) is an invisible, odorless, colorless, tasteless and highly toxic gas that is produced when fuels such as wood, gasoline, charcoal and oil are burned with insufficient air. The majority of residential and commercial fatalities caused from these fuels come from heating systems, engine powered tools and charcoal grills. Carbon monoxide is harmful when inhaled because it displaces oxygen in the blood and deprives the heart, brain and other vital organs of oxygen. Large amounts of CO can overcome a person in minutes without warning-causing them to lose consciousness and suffocate.

Below is a list of symptoms that are associated with exposure to carbon monoxide.

Mild Exposure	Slight headache, nausea, vomiting, fatigue.
Medium Exposure	Severe headache, drowsiness, confusion, fast heart rate.
Extreme Exposure	Unconsciousness, convulsions, cardiorespiratory failure, death.

In 2005, U.S. fire departments responded to an estimated 61,100 non-fire CO incidents in which carbon monoxide was found, or an average of seven such calls per hour. The number of incidents increased 18 percent from 51,700 incidents reported in 2003. This increase is most likely due to the increased use of CO detectors, which alert people to the presence of CO.

http://www.nfpa.org/itemDetail.asp?categoryID=280&itemID=18270&URL=Research%20&%20Reports/Fact%20sheets/Carbon%20monoxide

Each year in America, unintentional carbon monoxide poisoning claims more than 500 lives and sends another 15,000 people to hospital emergency rooms for treatment.1
http://www.usfa.dhs.gov/citizens/