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Carbon monoxide buildup forces businesses to be evacuated in Fairfield
Fairfield Township, NJ - A building that contained about 12 individual businesses was evacuated after a carbon monoxide detector in one of them activated on Wednesday, April 22, according to Deputy Chief of Police Anthony Manna.The police and fire departments...
Man seriously burned in Randolph explosion, fire
Randolph, MA - A propane gas explosion triggered a three-alarm fire that seriously burned a man and destroyed his Randolph home, officials said.The explosion was reported at 11:54 p.m. Tuesday at the two-story home on Tiffany Drive, said Fire Operations Chief Daniel...
Ossining Police Release Dramatic Footage Of Cops Making Carbon Monoxide Rescue
Ossining, NY - Protestors often demand that police be equipped with body cameras.Suburban Ossining has done just that, and on Wednesday, the department released dramatic video of cops rescuing people poisoned by carbon monoxide.It happened at a house with statues of a...
Canandaigua emergency crews at right place, right time
Canandaigua, NY - Emergency crews in the city of Canandaigua were at the right place at the right time late Tuesday morning.At approximately 11:50 a.m., while personnel were tending to a minor fender-bender outside the residence at 564 S. Main St., a person inside the...
Man killed in home explosion near Derby identified
Derby, KS - DERBY, Kan. -A man killed in a house explosion near Derby last night has been identified as 88-year-old Roland "Andy" Dayton.His family confirmed his identity to Eyewitness News.A propane buildup is likely to blame for a deadly house explosion just outside...
2 injured in Homestead restaurant explosion
Homestead, FL - Two people were injured at a Mexican restaurant in Homestead after an explosion that was caused by a gas leak Friday morning, according to Miami-Dade Fire Rescue.The explosion caused La Fondita, located in the 200 block of Southwest Sixth Avenue, to...
Carbon monoxide detector saves lives in apartment complex
Fort Lauderdale, FL - When Fort Lauderdale Fire Rescue responded to a 911 call prompted by a resident's beeping carbon monoxide detector, paramedics found an unconscious man inside a townhome and a car running in the garage, an official said."He didn't have a carbon...
Worker burned in gas explosion at East Providence bakery
East Providence, RI - An explosion at Taunton Avenue Bakery in East Providence sent one employee to the hospital with first and second degree burns on 20 percent of his body."One of the workers went to light the pilot on one of the ovens and an explosion occurred,...
Officials: Propane leak caused Clermont Co. home explosion
Bethel, OH - BETHEL Officials are investigating a home explosion in Clermont CountyPolice said the explosion happened in the 2600 block of Spring Street in Tate Township on Thursday."The amount of phone calls coming in was unbelievable. I guess it set burglar alarms...
Horse exhibitors hospitalized after carbon monoxide poisoning
Madison, WI - Two people suffered carbon monoxide poisoning today in an exhibitors' camper at the Midwest Horse Fair in Madison.Rescuers were called to the Alliant Energy Center just before ten this morning.Madison T-V stations said two people in the camper were...