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Carbon monoxide discovered; apartment building evacuated
Des Moines, IA - A hazmat team evacuated a Des Moines apartment building Friday night after discovering a high level of carbon monoxide.Residents of the four-story building at 3662 Ingersoll Ave. were safely removed and none required medical attention, officials with...
Families sue Army for $124 million in Clarksville Speedway carbon monoxide deaths
Clarksville, TN - The families of five people who died in 2011 of carbon monoxide poisoning in a trailer at the Clarksville Speedway have filed a federal lawsuit against the U.S. Army, saying it failed to put batteries in the trailer's carbon monoxide detector.The...
Three Goodwill Employees Hospitalized After Carbon Monoxide Leak
Nashville, TN - Fire officials believe a faulty propane-powered floor buffer led to the hospitalization of three Goodwill workers on Tuesday morning.About 20 people were inside the store on Charlotte Avenue at 54th Avenue when the store's carbon monoxide detector went...
Several Sent to Hospital from Carbon Monoxide in Garden City Park
Garden City Park, NY - Garden City Park Firefighters responded to a carbon monoxide situation at a Dominican-style restaurant Thursday and took a total of seven people to the hospital for treatment.According to Garden City Park Fire Chief Roger Green, outrageously...
Man hurt in Cranston home explosion Saturday morning
Cranston, RI - CRANSTON, R.I. -- An elderly man sustained burns and injuries when his house near the Park View Middle School exploded early Saturday morning, according to officials and neighbors.The blast happened around 7 a.m. at 23 Piedmont St. and appears to have...
County weighs in on northeast Bakersfield gas line fire
Bakersfield, CA - BAKERSFIELD, CA - It's the shallowest gas line the Kern County Roads Department said it has ever seen. Just four inches below the surface, a road grinder hit the PG&E line, causing an explosion and fire on Monday. Now, the county is trying to figure...
Shively children found unconscious from carbon monoxide poisoning
Shively, KY - A Shively father came home after work Thursday morning to find his two children unconscious, poisoned by carbon monoxide.The children survived, but the case illustrates the importance of carbon monoxide detectors, said Col. Gregory Cambron, chief of the...
Lakewood cops: 11 at home evacuated – 4 residents were sickened by carbon monoxide and taken to area hospital
Lakewood, NJ - LAKEWOOD Eleven people had to be evacuated from a home here Monday night and four were sent to the hospital after carbon monoxide apparently sickened them, police said.Firefighters, police and emergency medical personnel responded to 316 Ocean Avenue...
Colorado Springs man likely died of carbon monoxide
Colorado Springs, CO- COLORADO SPRINGS A man was found dead Tuesday morning in an apparent carbon-monoxide poisoning at a home in eastern Colorado Springs.Police and fire crews were called to the home at 2122 Meyers Ave. shortly after 8:30 a.m. after the man's...
Muellers credit carbon monoxide detector with saving their lives
La Crosse, WI - Steve and Jeanne Mueller of Westby believe they are alive today thanks to their investment in a carbon monoxide (CO) detector that warned the Muellers to evacuate their home on Sunday, April 14.Jeanne purchased the talking CO detector on a whim five...