Louisville, KY – A family with two small children is recovering tonight after being treated at an area hospital for carbon monoxide poisoning.
A woman living at the Country Brook apartment off of Westport road says it was the beeping of a carbon monoxide detector that woke her up around 5 a.m. Tuesday.
When LG&E and the Lyndon Fire Department arrived they detected harmful amounts of natural gas and carbon monoxide.
The couple and their two children, ages 3 and just 6 weeks, were treated and released.
No other injuries were reported and fire officials believe the apartment’s carbon monoxide detectors could have saved lives.
“With the levels that we saw people could have certainly perished. And I believe that with the levels that were being reported and had no one taken the time to call and to evacuate and get people out of the building we could have seen a much different story,” saidMajor John Stick of the Lyndon fire department.
Fire officials say the leak can be traced to a faulty furnace.
At least four furnaces at the apartment complex are being replaced.