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Tacoma apartment building evacuated after carbon monoxide gas leak

Tacoma, WA- Residents of a 16-unit apartment complex on the 300 block of North Tacoma Avenue were evacuated overnight for a gas leak that sent carbon monoxide into multiple apartments.One of the people who lived there called 911 just before 1 a.m. after returning home...

2 dead from carbon monoxide poisoning

Frankford, MO - Carbon monoxide poisoning is being blamed in the death of a couple in northeast Missouri.The Hannibal Courier-Post reports that 49-year-old Howard Stout and 48-year-old Theresa Stout died Wednesday night or Thursday morning in rural Pike County. They...

Human error blamed in Pa. gas explosion

Ephrata, PA - EPHRATA, Pa. (AP) — Fire officials are blaming human error for a gas explosion and three-alarm fire at a central Pennsylvania apartment building that has left 22 people homeless.The blast happened Friday morning in Ephrata, Lancaster County.Lincoln Fire...

Family suffers from carbon monoxide poisoning

Washingtonville, NY - An Orange County family spent Christmas Day in the hospital suffering from carbon monoxide poisoning.Four people--two adults, an 8-month-old boy and a 7-year-old girl--were taken from a home on McLaughlin Way in Washingtonville to the Orange...

Genesee Co. man dies from carbon monoxide poisoning

Genesee County, MI - For the second Christmas in a row, someone has died from carbon monoxide poisoning in the area.An 84-year-old man from Genesee County was found unresponsive in a garage with a generator Tuesday night.Grand Blanc Township police chief David stamm...

Did carbon monoxide kill 2 in Shreveport?

Shreveport, LA - A man and woman found dead inside a southwest Shreveport home on Christmas morning have been identified, and the Caddo Parish Coroner's Office says preliminary autopsy results indicate they died of carbon monoxide poisoning.Authorities identified the...

Fairbanks man dies of apparent carbon monoxide poisoning

Fairbanks, AK- Tim Mowry / tmowry@newsminer.com | Posted: Thursday, December 26, 2013 6:36 pmFAIRBANKS — A Fairbanks man was found dead in a vehicle on 23rd Avenue early Sunday afternoon, the apparent victim of carbon monoxide poisoning.Fairbanks police identified the...

Waldo County man dies of carbon monoxide poisoning

Knox, ME - A Waldo County man trying to refill his generator died Tuesday after being overcome by carbon monoxide fumes, three days after the start of a storm that has locked much of the state in a thick layer of ice and left well over 100,000 Mainers without...