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Ephrata, PA - EPHRATA, Pa. (AP) — Fire officials are blaming human error for a gas explosion and three-alarm fire at a central Pennsylvania apartment building that has left 22 people homeless.The blast happened Friday morning in Ephrata, Lancaster County.Lincoln Fire...

Washingtonville, NY - An Orange County family spent Christmas Day in the hospital suffering from carbon monoxide poisoning.Four people--two adults, an 8-month-old boy and a 7-year-old girl--were taken from a home on McLaughlin Way in Washingtonville to the Orange...

Genesee County, MI - For the second Christmas in a row, someone has died from carbon monoxide poisoning in the area.An 84-year-old man from Genesee County was found unresponsive in a garage with a generator Tuesday night.Grand Blanc Township police chief David stamm...

Shreveport, LA - A man and woman found dead inside a southwest Shreveport home on Christmas morning have been identified, and the Caddo Parish Coroner's Office says preliminary autopsy results indicate they died of carbon monoxide poisoning.Authorities identified the...

Fairbanks, AK- Tim Mowry / tmowry@newsminer.com | Posted: Thursday, December 26, 2013 6:36 pmFAIRBANKS — A Fairbanks man was found dead in a vehicle on 23rd Avenue early Sunday afternoon, the apparent victim of carbon monoxide poisoning.Fairbanks police identified the...

Harrisburg, PA - The American Red Cross of Central Pennsylvania helped two adults and a child who were displaced by what was reported as a carbon monoxide incident on Christmas Eve.A Red Cross news release Wednesday states that the adults and child were forced out of...

Knox, ME - A Waldo County man trying to refill his generator died Tuesday after being overcome by carbon monoxide fumes, three days after the start of a storm that has locked much of the state in a thick layer of ice and left well over 100,000 Mainers without...

Clinton County, MI - A Clinton County man died after running a generator inside a garage attached to his home.Deputies were called to the home just after 10 A.M. Tuesday morning.The 58-year-old along with his wife and two children were all suffering from carbon...

Lansing, MI - An adult and child in Lansing were taken to the hospital early Tuesday morning after being poisoned by carbon monoxide emitted from a generator used in their basement.Firefighters say someone in the home on the 1300 block of Ionia Street called 911 after...

Lansing, MI - A family of eight ended up in the hospital with Carbon monoxide poisoning early Sunday morning.That's after firefighters say they lost power and tried to heat their home with a gas oven.It happened around 1 a.m. on Sunday in the northwest section of...

Williamsburg, VA - Williamsburg police say carbon monoxide caused the August deaths of two men in an apartment building.Police tell media outlets that the deaths of 49-year-old John Raymond Norman and 41-year-old Adam Priesler have been ruled as accidental.Norman was...

Hermon, NY - The aftermath of the ice storm came close to claiming the lives of a couple and their infant daughter.State police said the family suffered carbon monoxide poisoning overnight after being overcome by fumes from a generator.Emergency crews were called to...

Battle Creek, MI - Police in Battle Creek say a family was taken to the hospital Monday morning for carbon monoxide poisoning.Police say that the family of three had a generator running in their garage because of the outages. The home in on Lakeway Road.There is no...

Sugarcreek Township, OH - A fireplace explosion Sunday night that sent one man to a hospital is being blamed on a propane source, the Sugarcreek Twp. Fire Department said late Monday afternoon.The man who was trapped in rubble at a home in the 2300 block of...

Elyria, OH - ELYRIA – Columbia Avenue residents spent much of Saturday morning cleaning up debris and assessing peripheral damage after a home at 116 Columbia Ave. was destroyed by a massive explosion late Friday night, the cause of which is still under...