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Elgin, IL - Firefighters suspect a natural gas leak was behind a suburban Chicago house explosion that caused about $150,000 worth of damage and sent the homeowner to an area Intensive Care Unit.Crews were called to the home on the 1100 block of Morningside Drive in...

Mount Vernon, OR - Seven people lost their homes, and most lost all their belongings, in an explosion and fire last week at the Mt. Vernon Motel and RV Park.Neighbors reported hearing a loud explosion and then seeing black smoke billowing from the residential motel at...

Aberdeen, SD - High levels of carbon monoxide led to the evacuation of the local United Way office Monday morning, the executive director of the agency said.Aaron Schultz also said three apartments in the building, at 12 Fourth Ave. S.E. in downtown Aberdeen, were...

Huntsville, AL - A faulty hood vent led to a potentially dangerous carbon monoxide situation at Bruegger's at 2000 Cecil Ashburn Dr. in Huntsville Monday morning.Huntsville firefighters heard about the problem shortly after 7:30 a.m. Huntsville Fire & Rescue spokesman...

Girard, IL - The North Mac superintendent says a loose flue on a water heater is to blame for a Carbon monoxide leak that sickened dozens of children in a Central Illinois school.Students at North Mac Middle School started complaining of being ill just after 9 a.m....

Marion, PA - MARION >> A second woman injured in an explosion and house fire in Marion last month has passed away, a hospital spokesperson said on Sunday.Naja N. George, 23, had been taken to Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center in Baltimore after police and...

Roberts, MT - ROBERTS — No one was injured Friday night when a rural Roberts home exploded as the result of a suspected propane leak.Hunter Bell, chief of the 13-member Roberts volunteer fire department, said the owner wasn't home, and neither was his tenant, who had...

Asheville, NC - A woman was killed and a 22-year-old relative is hospitalized in critical condition after a carbon monoxide filled their home, according to Asheville police.Police said that the family had been using an outdoor cooker with a propane tankinside their...

Waynesville, MO - The Missouri Highway Patrol says there was no foul play in the death of a couple in Pulaski County earlier this year.Frank Wevers, 66, and his wife Mary, 58, of Kimberling City were found dead in their camping trailer.They were staying at the Pulaski...

Center City, PA - Carbon monoxide sickened a number of people at a Center City Dollar Tree store Friday morning, even sending one to the hospital.The fumes were reported just before 9:00 a.m. at 1520 Chestnut Street.The Fire Department arrived on the scene shortly...

Lawton, OK - Two cafeteria workers at Lincoln Elementary School were taken to the hospital after being exposed to carbon monoxide on job Thursday afternoon.Right now, they're okay and recovering at home. According to LPS officials, a faulty piece of equipment on the...

Elyria, OH - A slow leak in the interior gas lines of a Columbia Avenue house led to a Dec. 20 explosion that shook the city and neighboring communities, according to an Elyria Fire Department report made public this week.Elyria Fire Marshal Carl Keith wrote that the...

Tulsa, OK - People forced out of a downtown apartment complex were allowed home after a carbon monoxide leak initally caused an evacuation.The building was without power until Thursday afternoon. It happened at the Hewgley Terrace apartments near 7th and South...

Salina, NY - National Grid did not notify code enforcement officers when it cut off power to a town of Salina house where a girl died Friday because doing so would have violated its customer confidentiality rules, company officials said today.A company official also...

Watford City, ND - A carbon monoxide poisoning at a Watford City laundromat hospitalized 14 people today.Emergency crews were called to Expressway Laundry around noon after an 18-year-old girl passed out.Responders say they believe people were breathing in exhaust...