Carbon monoxide detector saves Havre woman

Marcia Miller of Havre admits that when her son, Josh Miller, bought her a carbon monoxide detector as a gift last Christmas, she wasn’t sure what she was going to do with it.

But now she’s sure that the detector saved her life when her furnace malfunctioned.

Josh, a Cut Bank police officer, gave his mother the gift out of concern for the colorless, odorless gas that can cause death without warning.

Josh was at his mother’s Havre home for a few days earlier this month, and noticed that the detector, which she put on a shelf in her living room, read 32. He wasn’t sure what that meant, but he ad...