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Woman dead, 2 injured after Morgan Park carbon monoxide poisoning
Chicago, IL- A woman was dead on the scene and two other adults were taken to hospitals after they were sickened by carbon monoxide fumes Saturday night on the Far South Side.Emergency crews were called to a home in the 11300 block of South Church Street in the Morgan...
Bedford County couple dies of carbon monoxide poisoning
Woodbury, PA - A Bedford County couple died of carbon monoxide poisoning Tuesday.Coroner Russell Styer pronounced Rose Hoffman, 72, and Terrence Hoffman, 68, dead at the scene at 10:15 p.m. at their house on Hickory Bottom Road.Styer ruled both deaths accidental.
Carbon monoxide sickens girl at Fargo hotel; defective pool heater suspected
Fargo, ND - A girl was sickened by carbon monoxide in the pool area of La Quinta Inn and Suites and taken to a local hospital Monday, May, 29, a Fargo Fire Department spokesman said.Firefighters were called about 10:45 a.m. to the hotel at 2355 46th St. S., said...
Underground natural gas leak forces Logan County residents to evacuate
Peetz, CO - Logan County first responders used an emergency notification call to evacuate about 25 homes within two miles of East Cheyenne Gas Storage because of a natural gas leak from a well on Friday.The facility stores natural gas underground.On Thursday, a safety...
Report: Electrical components in refrigerator triggered fatal gas explosion at Zavalla home
Angelina County, TX - A report from the State Fire Marshal's Office showed that an explosion at a home in Zavalla that claimed the life of an 82-year-old man and seriously injured his wife was caused by a propane leak that was likely ignited by electrical components...
Teen dies from CO poisoning while riding on the back of a boat
Wichita, KS - Last summer, a 16-year-old girl was riding on the back of a boat in North Carolina as it was moving at a slow speed. She fell into the water and was found dead hours later.It was assumed she drowned, but a toxicology report showed she actually died of...
Gas explosion rocked neighborhood, destroyed home north of Springfield
Glidewell, MO - Investigators say a propane leak caused the explosion that rocked a neighborhood and destroyed a home.People living along Farm Road 76, near Missouri 13, reported a loud explosion around 5 p.m. The blast shook their houses, rattled windows, and left...
Texas cop possibly exposed to carbon monoxide in patrol car
Austin, TX - For the second time in two months, an Austin police officer was possibly exposed to carbon monoxide while driving his patrol car.Police told KVUE that the officer in last week's incident was not harmed thanks to a CO detector sounding off.Due to the...
Carbon Monoxide Suspected in Deaths of 2 at Springdale Shop
Springdale, AR - Authorities say no foul play is suspected in the deaths of a father and his son found dead in a northwest Arkansas auto shop last week.Springdale police say emergency responders found the bodies of 35-year-old Travis Walls and his adolescent son...
Carbon monoxide leak at Buca di Beppo
Kansas City, MO - It was roughly 10:30 a.m. when Kansas City, Missouri emergency crews were called to this Buca di Beppo on the Country Club Plaza, with reports of people feeling dizzy and ill.With their detectors reading off-the-chart numbers, firefighters knew right...