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Selma, NC — A community is raising money to help a family of four that was poisoned by carbon monoxide after they used a generator to heat their home Friday night. According to firefighters, the family had no electricity at their home on Jordan Narron Road and used a...

Itasca County, MN - Two people are dead after an explosion in rural Itasca County in northern Minnesota. The explosion happened just before 7:30 a.m. Thursday with the sheriff's office being alerted by a 911 caller who reported a structure fire near Turtle Lake. The...

Cameron County, TX — Authorities found a Cameron County man dead on Thursday morning. Officials received a call at around 6 a.m. and responded to the corner of Lovelace Ave. and Santa Rosa Ave., south of Santa Maria High School. At the scene, authorities found an...

Spokane, WA - Carbon monoxide was discovered in Old City Hall on Thursday morning emanating from a malfunctioning boiler, the Spokane Fire Department said. The building was evacuated quickly, and no one was hurt. Just before 6 a.m., morning workers called 911 when...

Hempstead, NY - Twenty eight people were treated following a carbon monoxide incident in Hempstead Wednesday morning.Nine of them were hospitalized, though are expected to be OK, officials said.It happened around 8 a.m. at an apartment building on Fulton...

Minot, ND - A couple was transferred to the Twin Cities and is undergoing treatment for carbon monoxide poisoning. It happened Sunday at their home in Minot.Emergency responders found the two adults unconscious and breathing. They were rushed to Trinity Hospital...

Storm Lake, IA - Carbon monoxide gas filled a Storm Lake home after snow blocked the exhaust and fresh air pipes from the furnace.According to a press release from the Storm Lake Fire Department, they responded to a carbon monoxide detector going off inside a...

Philadelphia, PA - Officials say a crack in a 92-year-old natural gas main led to the explosion that devastated a South Philadelphia block last month, killing two people, destroying five rowhouses, and forcing the evacuation of 60 residents.An investigation by the...

Miami Beach, FL - Over a half dozen people were treated after a carbon monoxide leak broke out Thursday morning at a hotel in Miami Beach.Chopper 6 was over the scene at the Shore Club, located at 1901 Collins Avenue, where Fire Rescue crews say a call came in of the...

Boston Township, MI - No one injured after a propane explosion at a home in Ionia County early Wednesday morning.Authorities were called around 3:10 a.m. Wednesday to a home in the 8600 block of Elm Lane, just off of Bluewater Highway, in Boston Township.The...

Keene, NH - Fire officials in Keene, N.H., were investigating Wednesday after a “system error” at a utility's distribution plant raised concerns about elevated carbon monoxide levels in this city in the southwestern part of the state.The Keene Fire Department began...

Durham, NC - After weeks of going apartment to apartment looking for carbon monoxide leaks, crews finished inspecting all of the apartments at McDougald Terrace on Tuesday.According to officials with the Durham Housing Authority, crews inspected 346 homes and found...

Buckingham Township, PA - An explosion leveled a home in Buckingham Township, Bucks County.Buckingham Police and Midway Fire Company were called to the 4300 block of Biddeford Circle in the township's Doylestown section Tuesday morning."The local neighbors heard the...

New Cassel, NY - Police say a case of carbon monoxide poisoning is to blame for four people being rushed to the hospital in Nassau County.The close call for a family in New Cassel was thanks to a carbon monoxide detector that alerted them to danger, reports CBSN New...

Mariposa, CA - Boating experts are urging people to check their safety equipment after Mariposa County sheriff's deputies made a shocking discovery at Lake McClure Saturday.Investigators say carbon monoxide may be to blame for the deaths of 68-year-old Roger Dennis...