The Alberta Fire Chiefs Association has come up with a rather novel way to remember to check your carbon monoxide detectors.

High River Fire Chief Cody Zebedee says they can be easily forgotten.

"Quite often we feel that, you know people will stick carbon monoxide detectors in their homes, which is excellent, but after they get stuck in their homes they tend not to ever get tested, they're kind of just there and you may walk past them every day but you may not notice them," he says. "The Alberta Fire Chiefs have come up with new campaign urging Albertans to do whatever it takes to notice the alarms in their house. They're proposing putting sticky eyes or moustaches or other things like that to make the alarms stand out in their homes."

He says the challenge with carbon monoxide is it has no odour so the only way to know there's a problem is to have a working alarm.

Zebedee says they used to urge homeowners to have just one detector near their furnace because carbon monoxide was heavier than air, but with forced air furnaces which heat the CO and pulls it through the heating system and can be pulled to all levels of the home.

Some of the newer homes have a combination smoke and CO alarm which could be doing double duty.

He says newer homes are more air tight which does not allow air exchange and that can trap the gases and allow them to build up, sometimes to dangerous levels.

He wants to point out the major causes of CO dangers are things like gas or wood fireplaces, water heaters, furnaces or idling vehicles in a garage. Zebedee says it's important to have the garage door open to allow the gas to escape.