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Marquette, MI - A man overcome with carbon monoxide who a Michigan Department of Natural Resources conservation officer tried to rescue last week has died.The incident occurred at 3:43 p.m. Wednesday when CO Mike Evink was dispatched to a home along Hutt Lake Drive in...

Lockport, NY - Just days after Christmas, Laurie Pinzel remembered she had to replace the batteries of her carbon monoxide detector."See, there's the battery in there," showed Pinzel.Plugging it back in after passing out on her bathroom floor the night before, waking...

Ellsworth, WI - A Pierce County man was found dead Thursday in a town of River Falls house filled with high levels of carbon monoxide.John Eisele, 80, was pronounced dead at the scene.According to the Pierce County sheriff's office, the county's communications center...

Highland, KS - A Highland family had a close call with a silent killer last weekend and give thanks to God for watching over them.Chris and Amy Lackey and their sons, Caleb and Carson, were all hospitalized last Friday after exposure to carbon monoxide.Chris Lackey,...

Coventry Township, OH - An entire family survived the explosion that blew up their home Monday in Coventry Township.Gabriel and Angie Hailey, two of their daughters and Angie's brother made it out safely after what is believed to have been a natural gas leak ignited....

Pleasantville, NJ - John Jouris probably owes his life to his recently installed carbon monoxide detector.Jouris, 61, of Absecon, has owned Johnny D's Pizzeria & Restaurant on North Main Street, an institution in the city, for the past 20 years, but he never installed...

Vail, CO - VAIL — At approximately 9 a.m. Jan. 11, crews from Vail Fire and Emergency Services and Eagle County Paramedic Services responded to a duplex on Vail View Drive for a report of a person not feeling well.Upon arrival, emergency personnel found one person who...

Burning Springs, KY - Three people went to the hospital with serious injuries after a home explosion in Clay County.It happened Sunday around 11:30 p.m. at a home on Roy Cox Road in the Burning Springs community.Nancy Collins Murrell, 42, and her children, Koby...

Corpus Christi, TX - Just before noon on Tuesday, hazmat and Corpus Christi Fire Department teams responded to a carbon monoxide threat at the Omni Hotel in downtown Corpus Christi. Six employees were taken to a hospital as some areas of the hotel's lower floors were...

Rapid City, SD - When the temperatures are extreme, we bundle up and turn up the heat. In the recent cold wave, the physicians at the Rapid City Regional Hospital Emergency Department saw a dramatic increase in the number of carbon monoxide poisonings. Most were...

Rochester, MN - A couple hours after Grace Condron went into work at the Gingerbread House Bakery Saturday morning, her head began to hurt.Condron, 20, who suffers from chronic migraines, thought it was just the beginning of another bad headache. But it became a bit...

Boston, MA - An apartment building was evacuated overnight after firefighters found increased levels of carbon monoxide there and in a courthouse next door, the Boston Fire Department said Monday.Boston Fire responded to reports of a gas leak at the apartment building...

Strasburg, PA - Eight people reported feeling ill after a carbon monoxide issue at a Paradise Township home Monday night.Fire crews were dispatched to a home on Summit Hill Road around 7 p.m. and found carbon monoxide levels of 350 parts per million inside with the...

Plattsburgh, NY- Hotel manager Kevin Rock said that sometime before 3:30 a.m., one of the sensors went off in the Plattsburgh Brewing Company kitchen, detecting a medium to high level of carbon monoxide, which automatically alerted the fire department.Rock believes...

Wentzville, MO - Nineteen university hockey players are recovering from carbon monoxide poisoning after being exposed to the gas at the Lindenwood Ice Arena.It happened Friday night at a Lindenwood Women's Hockey game.Eighteen of those athletes play for Lindenwood....