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Marquette, MI - The Marquette City Fire Department was dispatched this morning to a natural gas explosion in a home on South Lake Street.Fire officials said just after 8 a.m. they were called to the 1000 block of South Lake Street after a passerby called 911 to report...

Palm Springs, CA - An Ohio attorney whose body was found in a Palm Springs hotel room in November died from carbon monoxide poisoning, authorities said Wednesday.Mark Walter Ruf, 48, was found dead on the floor of his room at the Curve Palm Springs Hotel & Resort on...

Scott County, MS - Officials said four people whose bodies were found in a home in Scott County early Wednesday morning appear to have succumbed to carbon monoxide poisoning.The victims, who were not related to each other, were identified as Carlos Jermaine Boyd, 22;...

New York, NY - U.S. investigators were looking into gas lines and meters to determine what caused a natural gas explosion last week that leveled two New York City apartment buildings and killed eight people, fatalities that a city official said were accidental.Five...

Branch County, MI - Two off duty Branch County Deputies are getting the credit for an emergency rescue after they came upon the scene of an apparent natural gas explosion at a home at the corner of Marshall and Bidwell Roads just before noon on Monday.Deputies Al...

Lacey, WA - A propane tank explosion inside an RV on Reservation Road east of Lacey Monday night sent a couple who lived there to an area hospital with burns.The woman suffered second- and third-degree burns in the explosion, Lacey Fire Department Battalion Chief Tim...

Douglas, MA - Eighteen people, 16 of them kindergarten students, were taken to the hospital Monday morning after a carbon monoxide leak at the Douglas Municipal Center, the fire chief said.A malfunctioning boiler caused the leak at about 9:15 a.m. at the Municipal...

Denver, CO - More than a dozen people were sickened by carbon monoxide Saturday evening in downtown Denver. The incident happened at the Noodles and Company restaurant at the 16th Street Mall.Mark Watson, with the Denver Fire Department, said 13 people were checked...

Jeffersontown, KY - A malfunctioning gas burning appliance caused the Fairfield Inn & Suites in Jeffersontown to evacuate.Carbon monoxide detectors went off around 1:40 p.m. at the Fairfield Inn & Suites at 1220 Kentucky Mills Drive causing everyone to...

Provo, UT - A wheelchair-bound woman barely escaped death Sunday afternoon after her south Provo home exploded.Neighbors in the 1200 East block of 520 South, who felt their own homes shake from the blast, helped pull Glenda Wyatt, 54, from the rubble.Ben Pierce, who...

Kaena Point, HI - The medical examiner says a man who was trapped in a Jeep that may have been filled with carbon monoxide at Kaena Point has died.The medical examiner has identified him as 32-year-old Christopher Holbrook.Police believe Holbrook and a 26-year-old...

Hartford, CT - It was a close call for a mother and her unborn son in Vernon after she said she nearly died from carbon monoxide poisoning.Cheyenne Brennan and her boyfriend, Steve Gankofskie, now want to warn people about the dangers of the silent, odorless and...

New York, NY - The deadly explosion that ripped apart two buildings in New York's East Harlem on Wednesday morning brings new attention to a risk experts have been warning is especially great beneath the oldest U.S. cities: natural gas leaks.Con Edison, the utility...

Staten Island, NY - STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. - Fire Department personnel conducting a routine inspection found elevated carbon monoxide levels at a New Dorp business, resulting in two people being taken to the hospital, officials said.While inspecting Shaggy's Cheesesteaks...

San Diego, CA - Severe corrosion caused a 2012 natural gas pipeline rupture and explosion in West Virginia that destroyed three houses and cooked a stretch of Interstate 77, and the incident likely could have been prevented if the pipeline had been inspected or...