Suffolk, VA – A couple was rescued Saturday by firefighters from carbon monoxide poisoning.
According to a news release from Diana Klink with the City of Suffolk, Suffolk dispatchers got a call at 12:54 p.m. Saturday from a couple who wasn’t feeling well.
When firefighters arrived at the home on Wigneil Street in Eclipse, Klink said they found the woman semi-conscious, collapsed on the bathroom floor. Firefighters also found an extremely high level of carbon monoxide in the home.
Firefighters carried the woman out of the home and started emergency medical treatment. Both the man and woman were taken to Sentara Leigh Memorial Hospital to be treated in the hyperbaric chamber, according to Klink.
Klink said firefighters determined a gas grill the couple had cooked on the night before was accidentally left on. It was brought into the garage, and filled the home with a dangerously high level of carbon monoxide.