A SUSPECTED carbon monoxide leak brought the fire service and an ambulance to a family home in Edgworth. 

Watch manager Neil Mercer said the family, who live in Plantation Road, reported being unwell and having headaches.

The Edward's family's detector went off at about 7.30pm yesterday.

An ambulance took the parents and their teenage daughter, to hospital as a precautionary measure.

Fortunately, at hospital there was no sign of any CO poisoning and the family were allowed home. 

Mike Edwards said he believes the incident was actually a fault with the CO alarm but said he was getting the boiler and alarm checked today. 

Mr Mercer said: "The CO detector had gone off in the basement and ground floor, because they have no gas and electric to the property we thought it was a log fired boiler but it's a biofuel boiler that was showing a fault.

"There was no back pressure, so there's potential for the fumes to be coming into the property."

Firefighters isolated the boiler and checked the levels of the gas in the property, a note was left for the family advising them to get the boiler checked by a professional before using it again.

The firefighters were at the scene for around an hour and a half.

Mr Mercer said there had been a few other such incidents in the last few months.

He added: "It's the CO detectors that have been imperative, they are life savers.

"With CO being odourless and colourless, you can't see it and it puts you to sleep.

"CO detectors provide a life saving early warning."