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Memphis, TN - A concerned relative found her family members on the brink of death after a carbon monoxide leak inside their Memphis, Tennessee home.Carbon monoxide poisoning is treatable and the family is expected to recover, but paramedics believe they may only have...

Des Moines, IA - A hazmat team evacuated a Des Moines apartment building Friday night after discovering a high level of carbon monoxide.Residents of the four-story building at 3662 Ingersoll Ave. were safely removed and none required medical attention, officials with...

Clarksville, TN - The families of five people who died in 2011 of carbon monoxide poisoning in a trailer at the Clarksville Speedway have filed a federal lawsuit against the U.S. Army, saying it failed to put batteries in the trailer's carbon monoxide detector.The...

Nashville, TN - Fire officials believe a faulty propane-powered floor buffer led to the hospitalization of three Goodwill workers on Tuesday morning.About 20 people were inside the store on Charlotte Avenue at 54th Avenue when the store's carbon monoxide detector went...

Garden City Park, NY - Garden City Park Firefighters responded to a carbon monoxide situation at a Dominican-style restaurant Thursday and took a total of seven people to the hospital for treatment.According to Garden City Park Fire Chief Roger Green, “outrageously...

Cranston, RI - CRANSTON, R.I. -- An elderly man sustained burns and injuries when his house near the Park View Middle School exploded early Saturday morning, according to officials and neighbors.The blast happened around 7 a.m. at 23 Piedmont St. and appears to have...

Bakersfield, CA - BAKERSFIELD, CA - It's the shallowest gas line the Kern County Roads Department said it has ever seen. Just four inches below the surface, a road grinder hit the PG&E line, causing an explosion and fire on Monday. Now, the county is trying to figure...

Shively, KY - A Shively father came home after work Thursday morning to find his two children unconscious, poisoned by carbon monoxide.The children survived, but the case illustrates the importance of carbon monoxide detectors, said Col. Gregory Cambron, chief of the...

Lakewood, NJ - LAKEWOOD — Eleven people had to be evacuated from a home here Monday night and four were sent to the hospital after carbon monoxide apparently sickened them, police said.Firefighters, police and emergency medical personnel responded to 316 Ocean Avenue...

Colorado Springs, CO- COLORADO SPRINGS — A man was found dead Tuesday morning in an apparent carbon-monoxide poisoning at a home in eastern Colorado Springs.Police and fire crews were called to the home at 2122 Meyers Ave. shortly after 8:30 a.m. after the man's...

La Crosse, WI - Steve and Jeanne Mueller of Westby believe they are alive today thanks to their investment in a carbon monoxide (CO) detector that warned the Muellers to evacuate their home on Sunday, April 14.Jeanne purchased the talking CO detector on a whim five...

DeKalb, IL - Resource Bank was evacuated for about an hour and a half Monday morning because of a minor carbon monoxide leak.Workers at 555 Bethany Road smelled an odor about 8:30 a.m. and called authorities, DeKalb Fire Chief Eric Hicks said. Carbon monoxide is a...

Jackson, MI - Consumers Energy admits employees detected a gas leak in Royal Oak and left the scene prior to a Feb. 27 explosion that killed 58-year-old Daniel Malczynski.A Crew ruptured a line while laying an underground gas main using a boring process and disobeyed...

Eau Claire, WI - Four people were hospitalized in Eau Claire Wednesday for suspected carbon monoxide poisoning, according to the Eau Claire Fire Department.Two children and two adults were taken by ambulance from the residence at 1423 First St. Reserve in the Shawtown...

Lewiston, ID - LEWISTON, Idaho (AP) -A coroner says he's almost certain that carbon monoxide poisoning is to blame for the deaths of five people killed in a house fire in Orofino last weekend.Clearwater County Coroner Will Rambeau says smoke inhalation was a lesser...