Brockton, MA – Two-year-old Tommy and seven-year-old Jordyn Foster are happy to be home, after the siblings, their mother, grandmother and a neighbor’s brother were all rushed to the hospital Monday afternoon with carbon monoxide poisoning.
Jordyn said, It was kind of scary, I had a needle in my arm, right here.
Jordyn’s grandmother Sue says she doesn’t know how their Brockton apartment became so filled with dangerous levels of the odorless, tasteless poison.
Sue said, I had been cooking in the morning, shut it off and then pre-heated it for supper and all the sudden I hear ‘carbon monoxide in the hallway, evacuate the apartment.’
The Fosters, who have been without heat and most of their power since Friday, are grateful for the alarm, because otherwise they may not have realized until it was too late.
Sue said, I felt headachey, I felt nauseous but I’ve been drinking a lot of coffee trying to keep warm.
Her daughter Stephanie said, I was light-headed and nauseous, he was so out of it, lethargic, once he got fresh air, oxygen, he was active again.