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The province is reminding you to ensure you’re safe from carbon monoxide. Tips include never running a generator in your home, garage, or near a window or outside air intake; and don’t barbecue, use a camping stove or propane heater in the house or garage. Opening a window or door isn’t enough. The warning comes after three-dozen people went to hospital with carbon monoxide poisoning after the ice storm, with two passing away.
There are still about eight thousand customers awaiting the return of electricity in northern New Brunswick, one week after the ice storm that wreaked havoc in the province.
The N-B Power website shows many of the outages are on the Acadian Peninsula, on Miscou and Lameque Islands.
About 200 Canadian Forces troops are in those areas assisting in clearing debris and going door-to-door to check on residents.
The province announced yesterday it is setting up a disaster relief program and told residents to keep receipts for damage they have suffered.