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Bath, ME- Friends of the woman who died when an explosion leveled her Bath duplex on Tuesday morning say she had smelled gas in her home for weeks.“Every Tuesday, she'd come,” said Neighborhood Cafe food kitchen volunteer Patti Silva. “Reliable. That door would open...

Marion, MA - MARION — Members of the police and fire departments Tuesday rescued three victims of carbon monoxide poisoning from a Cranberry Way home, police said.At about 2 a.m., officers found the victims near the entrance to the home showing signs of carbon...

Aberdeen, ND- The body of a 57-year-old man who was found dead Tuesday evening was sent to Grand Forks, N.D., for an autopsy, said Taylor Oster, Brown County deputy coroner. Emergency workers responded to a call around 9:30 p.m. Tuesday in the 2100 block of 15th...

Dennisport, MA - Firefighters responded to a false alarm at 1:40 p.m. Monday and discovered victims of carbon monoxide poisoning at a nearby home.The Dennis Fire Department responded to a malfunctioning alarm at a home on Knox Road when they noticed a disoriented...

Jacksonville, TX - A local family barely escaped death Sunday evening after a leak inside their home exposed them to deadly carbon monoxide gas for an extended period of time, city officials said.During this Sunday night incident, White said three children and their...

Fresno, CA- FRESNO, Calif. (AP) — Two men have died and a woman was hospitalized in critical condition after the three were found Tuesday inside a small warehouse with a generator that had been used to provide power to the building produced toxic levels of carbon...

Albion, CA - A Mendocino Coast couple narrowly escaped Monday from what fire officials said appeared to be carbon monoxide poisoning in their Albion home.Both were unconscious when Albion Fire Chief Ted Williams went to their Highway 1 house about 4 p.m. Monday in...

San Antonio, TX - Ten construction workers were treated for inhaling carbon monoxide fumes while working at a senior living facility. It happened just before 11 a.m Tuesday at Meridian Care of Monte Vista on Russell Place near San Pedro on the north side.The men were...

Meriden, CT- Meriden police say they suspect carbon monoxide poisoning killed two people found inside a snow-covered car parked in a driveway.The bodies of a 20-year-old man and an 18-year-old woman were found Sunday morning. Police told the Record-Journal of Meriden...

Plymouth, MA- Firefighters responded to dozens of calls for carbon monoxide poisonings in the wake of the blizzard.Fire Chief Ed Bradley said his department received 51 separate carbon monoxide calls since Friday night. None of the incidents resulted in any...

Brockton, MA - Two-year-old Tommy and seven-year-old Jordyn Foster are happy to be home, after the siblings, their mother, grandmother and a neighbor's brother were all rushed to the hospital Monday afternoon with carbon monoxide poisoning.Jordyn said, “It was kind of...

Boston, MA - Officials are warning of carbon monoxide dangers after two people, including a child, died in Boston while sitting in running cars after the blizzard.Boston Fire Department spokesman Steve MacDonald says a father who was shoveling snow in the Roxbury...

Biddeford, ME- Emergency crews in two cities responded Saturday to carbon-monoxide alerts in buildings where heating vents had been clogged by snow from the historic blizzard.In Biddeford, five people were being treated at Southern Maine Medical Center for possible...

Springfield, MA - Two men are dead and one woman is hospitalized after what appears to be carbon monoxide poisoning.Aide to the Springfield Fire Commissioner Denis Leger told 22News at 7:15PM Sunday night, they were called to a home at 6 Corcoran Boulevard in...

Boston, MA - By smashing through a car window, fast-acting Boston firefighters yesterday prevented what might have been Boston's third fatal carbon monoxide pois­oning over the blizzard weekend.“People in the neighborhood called, saying they saw an older gentleman...