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Jersey City, NJ - Six Jersey City residents were treated for carbon monoxide exposure today, including one who was taken to the Jersey City Medical Center, and the owner of the building said it appears that a tenant disabled a smoke/carbon monoxide alarm, officials...

Bossier City, LA - Two people are recovering after being exposed to high levels of carbon monoxide inside their Bossier City home.Around 7:30 a.m. Thursday EMS crews arrived at a house in the 1200 block of Waller Ave.They found several people who were complaining of...

Elk Grove, CA - Authorities say a 16-year-old boy was critically injured when a camper in front of a Northern California home exploded following a propane leak.Police and fire crews in the Sacramento County city of Elk Grove responded to a report of an explosion...

Colorado Springs, CO - Fire investigators now say Friday's home explosion in northeast Colorado Springs was caused by a natural gas line that was not secured properly.The explosion happened just after noon on Nov. 8 at a home in the 4700 block of Chaparral Road....

Dover, NH - One woman from Mineral Park was taken to the hospital after a carbon monoxide detector in her unit went off just before noon Thursday.The woman, who had flu-like symptoms, was transported to Wentworth-Douglass Hospital by ambulance, according to Captain...

Fairbanks, AK - FAIRBANKS — With power still out in parts of Fairbanks, people have been calling Alaska Best Plumbing and Heating to ask if they should use camp stoves or other propane or kerosene-fueled devices to stay warm.And Cheryl Dowle, Alaska Best Plumbing and...

Milwaukee, WI - Residents have been evacuated from a two-story apartment building located at 13th and Locust in Milwaukee.We Energies and the Red Cross are on scene, and all residents have been evacuated. A county bus has been brought in to load the residents up while...

Kingsport, TN - A suspected carbon monoxide leak at Sullivan Gardens K-8 Wednesday afternoon turned out to be an issue with a boiler that had too rich a natural gas-to-air mixture, a county official said.Emergency responders and Sullivan County schools personnel were...

Quincy, IL - When the fall temperatures began to plummet a couple of weeks ago, Tammy Hoener and her husband, Dennis, did what most Quincyans would have done.They turned on their furnace.Not long afterward, they were fighting for their lives.Only through the quick...

Danville, IL - The Vermilion County coroner is warning people about the dangers of carbon monoxide poisoning following the death of a 91-year-old Danville man on Monday.Coroner Peggy Johnson said that Francis Harlan Hathaway was pronounced dead at 2:34 p.m. at his...

Lincoln Park, MI - Authorities in a Detroit suburb say a woman was seriously injured after an explosion forced her through an apartment's picture window and into a parking lot.Lincoln Park Fire Capt. Scott Lewis said the woman in her 40s suffered third-degree burns...

Scranton, PA - A city family's carbon monoxide detector saved lives on Sunday morning, Fire Department Lt. Jim Walsh said.Lt. Walsh said Luz and Felix Murrero had just fired up their furnace for the year when a chimney blockage likely trapped carbon monoxide inside,...

Oklahoma City, OK - A carbon monoxide leak at Lee Elementary School in southwest Oklahoma City sent three students and three staff members to local hospitals Monday afternoon, authorities said.People began complaining of dizziness, nausea, and stinging eyes in the...

Grand Junction, CO - A lawsuit alleges the City of Grand Junction, which has said it bears no responsibility for a gas line rupture and explosion that destroyed two homes on Seventh Street and led to widespread evacuations this past spring, failed to maintain...

Cape May County, NJ - A powerful explosion that leveled a home in Cape May County and left a couple seriously injured was caused by a propane leak, authorities said Friday.Investigators found a leak in a line for a propane tank on the property on the 200 block of East...