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Carbon monoxide fumes from snow-blocked heater vent send Bar Harbor family to hospital
Bar Harbor, ME - A woman and her three children were treated for carbon monoxide poisoning Tuesday morning at a local hospital after fumes built up inside their apartment because a heater vent was blocked by snow.The woman and her children called 911 a few minutes...
4 Hampshire College workers treated for carbon monoxide
Amherst, MA - Four Hampshire College cafeteria workers were taken to the hospital for carbon monoxide poisoning Monday afternoon, due to a boiler malfunction.Amherst Fire Chief Tim Nelson told 22News that two people in the school's cafeteria had reported dizziness,...
Report: More than 100 evacuated from recreation center building after carbon monoxide leak
Lewiston, ME - Firefighters evacuated more than 100 people from a building that houses Sparetime Recreation and two other businesses on Mollison Way for a carbon monoxide leak Tuesday morning, the Sun Journal reports.More than 100 employees were forced to stand in the...
Carbon monoxide leak sickens movie goers
Park Falls, WI - Authorities said 30 people were checked or treated for carbon monoxide poisoning after a leak occurred at a movie theater in Price County.Park Falls Police Chief Scott Straetz said his department got a call shortly before 10 p.m. Monday because a...
Man, 90, dead apparently from carbon monoxide from car
Monroeville, PA - Police believe a 90-year-old man died accidentally after leaving his car running in the attached garage of his home in the Pittsburgh suburbs.Family members tell Monroeville police the man lived alone. They found him inside another part of his home...
Maine sees 30 carbon monoxide poisoning cases during week of snowstorms
Bangor, ME - Maine has seen an unusually high number of carbon monoxide poisonings in the wake of recent snowstorms, including one that sent a Bar Harbor family to the hospital Tuesday.The Northern New England Poison Center recorded 30 cases of exposure to carbon...
Another carbon monoxide scare at Cleveland apartments
Cleveland, OH - A carbon monoxide scare has removed two families from their home at the Neal Terrace apartments on Cleveland's West Side for the second time this week.The Cleveland Fire Department and emergency medics responded Sunday to two households and found...
Washington Heights Building Partially Evacuated, 5 Hospitalized, Due To Carbon Monoxide
New York, NY - The freezing, icy weather Monday night was blamed for a carbon monoxide leak that led to the partial evacuation of a building in Washington Heights, and sent at least five people to an area hospital.The FDNY responded to the building at 163rd Street and...
2 taken to hospital due to high carbon monoxide levels in home
South Lyon, MI - Two people were taken to a hospital Saturday after the South Lyon Fire Department found high levels of carbon monoxide in a home in the 600 block of Kestrel Ridge Drive.The carbon monoxide levels were caused by a leaky furnace.The SLFD says two people...
Carbon monoxide poisons mom & 9 teens at slumber party in South Lyon
South Lyon, MI - As a mom and nine girls slept at a home in South Lyon they had no way of knowing they were breathing in poison.The furnace had malfunctioned, and the house was filling with carbon monoxide. The deadly gas is colorless and odorless. The house did not...