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Waterloo, IA - A family is lucky to be alive after an explosion tore through their house Wednesday night.The city fire marshal is investigating the blast at 1102 South St., but fire officials said the house appeared to have been damaged by a natural gas explosion.A...

Bridgewater, MA - Two Water Street residents and their dog were hospitalized after a close call with a major carbon monoxide leak Tuesday morning.Bridgewater Fire Chief Tom Levy said the department received an emergency call from a resident at a home in the street's...

Mansfield, MA - A local hotel was evacuated Monday evening due to a carbon monoxide incident, authorities say.Around 5:55 p.m., elevated levels of carbon monoxide were found inside the Holiday Inn hotel on Hampshire Street. The hotel was evacuated for an hour while...

Stratford, CT - A school in Stratford dismissed students early Monday due to a carbon monoxide issue.The Stratford Fire Department confirms that earlier, they received a call from the Second Hill Lane School, at 65 Second Hill Lane, about a natural gas leak. However,...

Kettering, OH - Firefighters are investigating an explosion at a home on Pamela Sue Drive in Kettering, possibly caused by a natural gas leak.Crews were dispatched to the 400 block of Pamela Sue Drive around 11:40 p.m. Tuesday on initial reports of a house...

Rochester, NY - Eleven people needed medical attention after carbon monoxide built up Sunday afternoon in Emmanuel Temple Church in Rochester's Maplewood neighborhood.Two adults and a child were taken to the hospital as a precaution, Rochester Fire Department Lt. Dana...

Moon Township, PA - Investigators are still trying to figure out what caused a massive explosion that leveled a home in Moon Township.Fire officials and Peoples Natural Gas were seen combing the scene Friday.Erica Arreola tearfully apologized to neighbors about the...

Omaha, NE - Omaha resident Kim Waszgis-Vaca's relative was working on his car as he had done many times before. He hooked up an exhaust pump to direct the gas outside as he had done many times before. Unknown to him the wind was blowing the odorless, colorless gas...

Prince George County, MD - Prince George's County police officer Ricardo Biddy was on the phone with his friend talking about their day's work volunteering at the Seat Pleasant fire station, when suddenly Biddy began slurring his words.“He started mumbling about...

Derry, NH - A problem with a furnace Thursday morning led to a carbon monoxide leak at a Derry duplex.Firefighters said people inside the home didn't feel right and went to a hospital. Investigators found elevated levels of carbon monoxide inside the home.The problem...

Monroe Township, PA - State police confirmed Thursday afternoon that a Snyder County teenager died from carbon monoxide poisoning earlier this week while they await the cause of death for her father.Jada Dawn Gillison, 15, died due to carbon monoxide exposure, police...

Wheaton, MD - Ten people were evaluated after an apartment complex in Montgomery County was evacuated for high levels of carbon monoxide early Tuesday morning, officials said.Pete Piringer, a spokesperson for Montgomery County Fire and Rescue Service reported the leak...

Atlanta, GA - Authorities in Atlanta say that four children and six adults were taken a hospital to be treated for possible carbon monoxide poisoning.Atlanta fire officials say the 10 people were at a home in northwest Atlanta when they became sick. They were...

Mosinee, WI - A Mosinee man is sitting in a Milwaukee hospital after suffering from carbon monoxide poisoning a couple of weeks ago.It all happened during the strong wind storms that slammed the area and knocked out power across the region.The Mosinee Fire District...

Lincoln, NE - One Lincoln family is waking up in their own beds this morning after a hazmat scare.The resident from this house on Washington street called 911 last night at around 8:30 after smelling a strong gas from her garage.Fire crews checked the carbon monoxide...