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Sources: Gas Smell Reported Before Valley High Bla
Santa Ana, CA - Administrators have recently received several complaints from Santa Ana Valley High School staff about a strong smell of gas in a building where an explosion took place Tuesday morning, according to two sources close to the situation.The fiery...
Explosion rocks Santa Rosa neighborhood
Santa Rosa, CA- An explosion Wednesday morning sent heavy smoke and flames towering over a northwest Santa Rosa neighborhood.No injuries were reported in the 9:15 a.m. explosion, which officials said possibly originated with a leaking natural gas meter.Santa Rosa...
TWRA offers boating safety tips after water accidents
Knoxville, TN - Tennessee wildlife officials are spreading the word about staying safe on the water this summer.They say scenes like the image to the right are all too common on Tennessee waterways. Last year, there were 189 boating accidents with 18 fatalities.So far...
Do hotels and motels require carbon monoxide detectors?
Bristol, TN - With so many people leaving for their summer vacations, we wanted to know if hotels and motels are required to have carbon monoxide detectors.Bristol Tennessee's Assistant Fire Chief Jack Spurgeon says most hotels and motels do not have carbon monoxide...
Gas explosion levels home, critically injures 3
Dobbin, TX - Three people were critically injured Tuesday morning in Montgomery County after a house exploded in the community of Dobbin, scattering debris for half a mile.Eight-month-old Wyatt Mock was flown to UTMB-Galveston for treatment of severe head trauma and...
Fire chief cites lag in toxicology request
Boone, NC- The death of an 11-year-old boy at a Boone hotel might have been prevented if state medical examiners had ordered routine carbon monoxide testing earlier this year when two other people died in the same room, a public official said Tuesday.Authorities found...
Avalon family gets sick from carbon monoxide leak Sunday
Avalon, NJ- A family of four were hospitalized Sunday after carbon monoxide leaked from a pool heater in their garage and traveled upstairs into the apartment where the family slept, according to firefighters.Emergency response arrived at the residence after a call at...
27 workers, 1 firefighter checked for carbon monoxide poisoning at plant
Lincolton, NC - Twenty-seven workers and one firefighter had to be taken to the hospital following what appears to be carbon monoxide poisoning at a tortilla chip plant, R.W. Garcia in Lincolton.None of the injuries appear to be life-threatening. The cause of the...
Carbon monoxide ruled cause of January death
Fort Wayne, IN - Investigators have concluded that a woman found dead in January in a vacant storefront on South Anthony Boulevard died accidentally from carbon monoxide poisoning.On Jan. 23, the body of Dana Gersper was discovered inside the storefront that was under...
High carbon monoxide levels force evacuation of apartment building in Clay
Clay, NY - High carbon monoxide levels forced the evacuation of a building at Breckenridge Apartments in Clay Sunday morning.The Moyers Corners Fire Department responded to 4320 Arlington Circle off Candlelight Lane shortly after 10 a.m. after receiving a report that...