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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...
ACFD Responds to Carbon Monoxide Incident at Fort Myer Child Center
Fort Myer, FL - Arlington County and Fort Myer firefighters and medics are on the scene of a carbon monoxide incident on Joint Base Myer-Henderson Hall.The incident is taking place at the Cody Child Development Center on the base. Firefighters were dispatched there...
Couple sues Best Western after they were allegedly exposed to carbon monoxide
Harrisburg, PA - HARRISBURG A New York couple is suing Best Western over claims that they were allegedly exposed to carbon monoxide poisoning while staying at the hotel.Julie and Keith Nutt filed a complaint Jan. 4 in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District...
Gas leak causes explosion at Ecorse park bathroom
Ecorse, MI - A gas leak caused a public park bathroom at Dingell Park to explode in Ecorse Thursday morning, Ecorse Public Safety Director Mike Moore tells FOX 2. The leak has also prompted the evacuation of some homes in the area, and Moore says nearby Grandport...
Explosion rips Duluth home, causes more than $200,000 in damage
Duluth, MN - Nobody was injured when part of a home exploded in the Morley Heights neighborhood of Duluth on Thursday morning. Damage to the home is estimated at more than $200,000.A next-door neighbor described the explosion as sounding as if a bomb had dropped on...
Two Treated For Carbon Monoxide Poisoning In East Columbus
Columbus, OH - An adult and child are being treated at local hospitals after suffering from carbon monoxide poisoning.Medics were called to a home on Zettler Road Wednesday afternoon on a report of CO poisoning.Upon arrival, an adult and child were transported to Ohio...
Winter brings spike in carbon monoxide cases at Colorado Springs hospital
Colorado Springs, CO - The wood burning stove used to warm a Lamar woman's house recently almost killed her all because it emitted an odorless, colorless and deadly gas.She hasn't been alone.Memorial Hospital Central, which has the state's only 24-hour hyperbaric...
Coroner: 2 Lake City men killed by carbon monoxide poisoning
Lake City, SC - Two Lake City men have died as a result of carbon monoxide poisoning from using a gas generator indoors.The Morning News of Florence reports that Florence County Coroner Keith von Lutcken identified the men as 62-year-old Jimmy Lee Gurgess and...
Historic M’s Pub is gone; extent of damage to Old Market corner unknown
Omaha, NE- The whiff of gas that wafted through M's Pub grew stronger by the minute Saturday, as David Christiansen finished eating one of the restaurant's famous flatbreads known as lahvosh.His wife, Connie Spencer, thought about saying something to the waitress, but...
Meriden homeless shelter evacuated after carbon monoxide scare
Meriden, CT - A local homeless shelter had to be evacuated Sunday night after a carbon monoxide alarm went off.Shelter Now is located at 43 St. Casimer Drive. The shelter's office manager Maria Wagner said at 7:16 p.m. the building's carbon monoxide alarm went off and...