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Carbon Monoxide Scare Clears Out Daycare: Police
Owings Mills, MD - OWINGS MILLS, MD Dozens of children were evacuated from a daycare in Owings Mills Thursday after a carbon monoxide alarm activated, according to Baltimore County public safety officials.Authorities said 40 children were cleared out of the building...
Police: Propane Leak Caused House Explosion
Duluth, MN - The Duluth Fire Department confirmed Monday a house explosion last week in Duluth was caused by a propane leak.The explosion tore through part of a home in the Morely Heights neighborhood last Thursday morning, causing close to a quarter of a million...
Carbon monoxide leak forces school closure
Enon, OH - A carbon monoxide leak forced the closing of Enon Elementary School on Tuesday.Repairs are expected to be made in time for school at 120 S. Xenia Drive to be open on Wednesday, said Greenon Local Schools Superintendent Brad Silvus.As the building's...
Gas Leaks Lead California Infrastructure Problems
West Palm Beach, FL - "With only one thing in common. They got the fire down below." Bob Seger Fire Down Below"California and New York both share Democratic political control above ground, but in a surprising development they also have something in common in the...
Sheriff’s Deputies: Carbon Monoxide Likely Killed Union County Couple
Union County, OH - Union County Sheriff's Deputies say carbon monoxide poisoning is the probable cause of death of two people found in a jeep last Saturday.Deputies say after the vehicle got stuck in a creek by a culvert 29-year-old Trevor Zimmerman and...
One Dead from Suspected CO Poisoning in Leech Lake; Three Others Treated
Leech Lake, MN - One person was found dead in an ice fishing house Sunday on Walker Bay of apparent carbon monoxide poisoning.Police say three others in the fish house were treated for symptoms of carbon monoxide poisoning as well.The Cass County Sheriff's Office...
Woman Thanks Firefighters After Carbon Monoxide Scare
Southington, CT - A woman in Southington is thanking the fire department for saving her life when her carbon monoxide detector went off on Sunday.Joanna Roberts-Brennan has lived in her home in Southington for 17 years. She changes the batteries on all of smoke and...
Woman, 5 children overcome by carbon monoxide in Bear, Del..
Bear, DE - Six people, including 5 children, are hospitalized after a carbon monoxide incident in New Castle County.Fire crews were called just after 8 p.m. Saturday to the 100 block of Flamingo Drive in Bear, Delaware.Upon arrival, officials said crews discovered an...
Propane caused Union home explosion, officials say
Union, ME - A propane problem is being blamed for Thursday's home explosion and fire in Union.An early morning explosion and fire Thursday leveled a home in Union, and all occupants have been accounted for, according to investigators.Fire investigators said two...
Lexington fire department officials investigate carbon monoxide leak
Lexington, KY - A Lexington woman checked herself into the hospital Sunday night with a headache. It turns out her apartment on Patchen Drive was slowly filling up with carbon monoxide."The furnace was malfunctioning and generating carbon monoxide and actually a small...