Oof. Not even $50k to be a supervisor in one of the most loathed industries.... you can make more being a supervisor at panda express.

As someone who works for Medicare, thanks for all the great work you do. But absolutely, don't risk your safety!

I meant more that OP and her family could be hallucinating bad smells and perhaps developing sore throat from the fumes. But it looks like they have one, so moot point.

Get a carbon monoxide detector.

No, it's one of the few social psychology theories that has really withstood the test of time and many, many replications. There are some relevant criticisms that it takes a fairly Western perspective (See a recent PNAS paper arguing that its conceptualization of child socioemotional development is not universal across cultures), but the theory has roots in Mary Ainsworth's work studying family dynamics in Uganda, so it's not completely based only on Western research.