Can a neighbor's exhaust fumes cause carbon monoxide symptoms?!
Question:
Can a neighbor's exhaust fumes cause carbon monoxide symptoms?
I live in a seniors mobile home park, and my mobile home is rather old and has no A/C. I have a neighbor who had someone start an old car of hers the other day, and she left it running for over an hour. I could smell exhaust fumes all through my house.
For the rest of that day and the following, I had vague symptoms -- headache, slight nausea, light-headedness. Shortness of breath, though some of that's expected during allergy season. I felt very lethargic.
I'm fine now. Might this have been CO, or was it possibly just the general heat or a bug of some kind?
Best guess, please.
Answers:
Yes it could have been carbon monoxide you need to get you a detector they are not that expensive and I know from past experience that if you leave a car open and the fumes enter your house it will set the alarm off. Them you get out and report neighbor to cops or fire department.