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Topeka, KS - The Kansas Corporation Commission on Wednesday approved a proposed agreement to fine one company involved in a fatal natural gas explosion and require another company to make changes.Lucinia “Lucy” Tolliver, 81, died as a result of a natural gas explosion...

Keeler Township, MI - Authorities say they rescued an Illinois man and his two children after they apparently were overcome by carbon monoxide in southwestern Michigan.The Van Buren County sheriff's department says it went to a summer cottage in Keeler Township Sunday...

Dekalb County, AL - Dekalb County Sheriff Jimmy Harris says that one man is dead and two others are hospitalized after a relative discovered the men unconscious in a home they were renovating in Rainsville. Officials believe that the three succumbed to carbon monoxide...

Tolland, CT - TOLLAND, Conn. (AP) — Tolland High School has been evacuated after carbon monoxide was detected inside the building.State police Lt. J. Paul Vance says they responded along with local authorities Friday morning to a carbon monoxide alarm at the...

Fond du Lac, WI - One person was injured when a vacant home in Fond du Lac exploded shortly before 5 a.m. Thursday.An elderly next-door neighbor received minor injuries when the duplex at 352 Twilight Trail exploded.Fond du Lac Assistant Police Chief Steve Klein said...

Royal Oak, MI- Royal Oak — Utility gas crews failed to follow company procedures before a Feb. 27 deadly gas main explosion in Royal Oak, according to an interim report sent to the Michigan Public Service Commission by Consumers Energy.According to a copy of the...

Lincoln, NE - A food production plant in Lincoln reopened Sunday one day after several workers were exposed to carbon monoxide.The leak was discovered at the Koch Foods plant around 8 p.m. Saturday. Only a few contractors were present at the time. Several people were...

Stow, OH - Dozens of people were taken to the hospital Thursday morning after a carbon monoxide leak at a Summit County bowling alley.According to the Stow Fire Department, crews responded just after 11:30 a.m. to Sto-Kent Family Entertainment, where they found dozens...

Hoover, AL - Two floors of the Ross Bridge resort have reopened after 15 guests complained of carbon monoxide poisoning. All of the guests have sought medical treatment. Resort general manager Steve Miller says he's visited 11 of the guests and says they are doing...

East Point, GA - Carbon monoxide is the expected culprit in the tragic deaths of a father and son who lived on Graywall Street near Headland Drive in the City of East Point.According to reports, a family member discovered the 2 bodies while doing a welfare check on...

Storm Lake, IA- High levels of carbon monoxide have been found at a restaurant that had been evacuated in northwest Iowa.The Storm Lake Fire Department, police and Alliant Energy responded to a Burger King outlet on Tuesday night after an odor of natural gas was...

Chicago, IL - A blocked furnace may be to blame for a carbon monoxide leak in a Northwest Side Logan Square home that sent seven people to area hospitals Tuesday night.First responders called to a home in the 2600 block of North Springfield Avenue shortly before 8...

Whitpain Township, PA - Emergency crews responded to a grocery store in Whitpain Township, Montgomery County early Saturday where they found high levels of carbon monoxide.Firefighters were called around 5:30 a.m. to the Giant Food Store located on the 1700 block of...

Foley, AL - Park Place Apartments complex in Foley encountered a carbon-monoxide scare this week when nine residents went to the South Baldwin Regional Medical Center emergency room in the wee hours of Wednesday morning.“We were notified by the ER staff at SBRMC at...

Dickinson, ND - Everything happens for a reason.That adage has been said over and over again. Yet, it was never truer than on March 4 at the Farstveet home in Beach, N.D.Wet and heavy snowfall, which postponed the District 13 championship game to the following day,...