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Officials: EMS units detect carbon monoxide leak while at Md. restaurant for lunch break
Montgomery County, MD - Emergency medical units from a local Maryland jurisdiction were at the right place at the right time Friday afternoon.Officials say, around 5 p.m. the units arrived at the Roy Rogers near the intersection of Route 29 and Old Columbia Pike in...
Glendale Heights Deaths Likely Carbon Monoxide Poisoning
Glendale Heights, IL - There is an investigation underway in northwest suburban Glendale Heights after two people were found dead of apparent carbon monoxide poisoning.Police in Glendale Heights says James and Kathryn McMahon were found dead around 7:15 Wednesday...
Investigation into Hobbs home explosion completed
Hobbs, NM - Officials have concluded their investigation into a home that exploded Tuesday night in the 400 block of West Skelly St.Authorities said the cause of the explosion was accidental with gas and vapor pockets believed to have migrate throughout the home,...
Youngstown couple rescued from home with deadly carbon monoxide levels
Youngstown, OH - Youngstown Police said a couple had to be carried from their Pine Hollow Drive home after dangerous levels of carbon monoxide were found.Responding to a 911 call, police arrived and heard screaming from inside. They then broke down the door and helped...
Police: Man found dead from carbon monoxide poisoning
Green Oak Township, MI - A 73-year-old Green Oak Township man and his dog died of possible carbon monoxide poisoning Sunday, officials said.Chief Jason Pless of the Green Oak Township Police Department said officers were called around 1:50 p.m. Sunday to a home in the...
5 injured in Fairbanks propane explosion
Fairbanks, AK - A propane leak was responsible for a blast that injured five people Sunday evening at a Fairbanks home, the Alaska Department of Public Safety said.The patients were all taken to Fairbanks Memorial Hospital from the Rosie Creek Road residence after the...
Couple die from apparent carbon monoxide poisoning
Carbondale, KS - Two people died from apparent carbon monoxide poisoning in a small town south of Topeka Saturday.Osage County Sheriff Laurie Dunn said in a news release the couple, identified as 54-year-old Gregory K. Bayless and a woman, 51-year-old Troy Adkins of...
9 Taken To OKC Hospital After Carbon Monoxide Poisoning
Yukon, OK - The Oklahoma City Fire Department says nine occupants of a home in Yukon were transported to the hospital to be evaluated for carbon monoxide poisoning early Saturday morning.At 6:22 a.m., crews responded to a home at 2125 Dogwood Creek Ave., after a...
Panera Shuts Restaurant After Possible Carbon Monoxide Exposure
Seekonk, MA - Panera Bread Co. shuttered a restaurant in Massachusetts after employees and customers there were possibly exposed to carbon monoxide.The franchisee who operates the restaurant in the town of Seekonk is working with the health department to investigate,...
Voicemail left on housing inspector’s phone warned of gas in home that exploded as she stood in the kitchen
Omaha, NE - As natural gas filled a Benson home for two days, a voicemail waited on Clara Bender-Rinehart's work cellphone alerting her to the potential danger.Her relatives and friends may never know whether she heard that message.The property inspector was killed...