my brother JUST moved his family into a rental home(doublewide), they didnt even have renters insurance yet. They had a electrical fire in the space between the ceiling and the roof. The city fire department showed up and they couldnt get the city hydrant to flow at all. I'm a ex firefighterand i know the engines flow between 1250 and 1500 gallons a minute, and the on board tanks only hold 300-1500 gallons of water. Case being, when that water was gonethey had NO water at all. It took out the whole roof, and some of there stuff. Is the city liable for the hydrants not working? They should be. I know they are supposed to test those. It's in Missouri by the way.
Whether it is worth it depends on what you are trying to achieve. Done properly a lowered car can be quite drivable and certainly will not wear out tires any faster. Problem is, most of the people that do this don't have the money or knowledge to do it right and they hack it up. To my mind doing anything to a car to make it look cool is the Chimpanzee part of the brain at work, but that's jsut me. From a performance standpoint (and this is what lowering is supposed to be for) a properly set up car can handle extremely well. But one has to know what they are doing and what they are trying to acheive. Cars with Strut type suspensions for example don't really like to be slammed down to the ground like a mid-90's Honda (multi-link suspension) - but that doesn't stop people because they want that look.
When a heater comes on in the fall, it quite often creates a smell. Perhaps the dog was smelling this. Also, animals often take residence in a heater over the summer and create a smell when it is first turned on, another smell to alert the dog. Carbon monoxide does not have an odor. Detectors have a button to push to check them.
