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Elyria, OH - A slow leak in the interior gas lines of a Columbia Avenue house led to a Dec. 20 explosion that shook the city and neighboring communities, according to an Elyria Fire Department report made public this week.Elyria Fire Marshal Carl Keith wrote that the...

Tulsa, OK - People forced out of a downtown apartment complex were allowed home after a carbon monoxide leak initally caused an evacuation.The building was without power until Thursday afternoon. It happened at the Hewgley Terrace apartments near 7th and South...

Salina, NY - National Grid did not notify code enforcement officers when it cut off power to a town of Salina house where a girl died Friday because doing so would have violated its customer confidentiality rules, company officials said today.A company official also...

Watford City, ND - A carbon monoxide poisoning at a Watford City laundromat hospitalized 14 people today.Emergency crews were called to Expressway Laundry around noon after an 18-year-old girl passed out.Responders say they believe people were breathing in exhaust...

Salina, NY - A 6-year-old girl died and her 14-year-old brother is in critical condition at Upstate University Hospital after an incident at their home earlier this morning.No official cause of her death and his injuries has been determined, but carbon monoxide...

Jefferson County, MO - The three people found dead in a home near Fenton on Thursday are Smail Zukic, 64; his wife Asija Zukic, 55; and their son, Snead Zukic, 31, the sheriff's office said today.Authorities previously had said the youngest victim was 41, but later...

Marion, PA - A mother and daughter were still in critical condition Saturday afternoon after an explosion and resulting fire ripped through their home on Main Street in Marion, according to a hospital spokeswoman and a fire official.Marlena Campbell, 47, and her...

Evanston, IL - Two men using a gas-powered saw in a home's basement were sickened by carbon monoxide fumes this afternoon in Evanston, fire officials said.The men, one in his 60s and the other younger, were taken via advanced life-support ambulance to Presence St....

Charlotte, NC - Students and staff have returned to Coulwood Middle School after a carbon monoxide scare.Charlotte firefighters responded to the school around 12:30 p.m. Tuesday after a CO2 detector sounded.Only one detector went off in the school. It's placed near...

Dallas, TX - A natural gas leak is suspected as the cause of a house explosion early Tuesday in Dallas that injured a woman and her five children.Neighbors reported smelling gas in the hours before the explosion early Tuesday.The single-story home was engulfed in...