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Suspected carbon monoxide poisoning sends Mendocino Coast couple to hospital
Albion, CA - A Mendocino Coast couple narrowly escaped Monday from what fire officials said appeared to be carbon monoxide poisoning in their Albion home.Both were unconscious when Albion Fire Chief Ted Williams went to their Highway 1 house about 4 p.m. Monday in...
Workers treated for carbon monoxide poisoning
San Antonio, TX - Ten construction workers were treated for inhaling carbon monoxide fumes while working at a senior living facility. It happened just before 11 a.m Tuesday at Meridian Care of Monte Vista on Russell Place near San Pedro on the north side.The men were...
2 Conn. deaths blamed on carbon monoxide poisoning
Meriden, CT- Meriden police say they suspect carbon monoxide poisoning killed two people found inside a snow-covered car parked in a driveway.The bodies of a 20-year-old man and an 18-year-old woman were found Sunday morning. Police told the Record-Journal of Meriden...
Dozens affected by carbon monoxide in Plymouth
Plymouth, MA- Firefighters responded to dozens of calls for carbon monoxide poisonings in the wake of the blizzard.Fire Chief Ed Bradley said his department received 51 separate carbon monoxide calls since Friday night. None of the incidents resulted in any...
Carbon monoxide, ceiling concerns in Brockton, Mass.
Brockton, MA - Two-year-old Tommy and seven-year-old Jordyn Foster are happy to be home, after the siblings, their mother, grandmother and a neighbor's brother were all rushed to the hospital Monday afternoon with carbon monoxide poisoning.Jordyn said, It was kind of...
2 in Boston die of carbon monoxide after blizzard
Boston, MA - Officials are warning of carbon monoxide dangers after two people, including a child, died in Boston while sitting in running cars after the blizzard.Boston Fire Department spokesman Steve MacDonald says a father who was shoveling snow in the Roxbury...
Snow leads to concerns over carbon monoxide
Biddeford, ME- Emergency crews in two cities responded Saturday to carbon-monoxide alerts in buildings where heating vents had been clogged by snow from the historic blizzard.In Biddeford, five people were being treated at Southern Maine Medical Center for possible...
2 dead, 1 hospitalized due to carbon monoxide
Springfield, MA - Two men are dead and one woman is hospitalized after what appears to be carbon monoxide poisoning.Aide to the Springfield Fire Commissioner Denis Leger told 22News at 7:15PM Sunday night, they were called to a home at 6 Corcoran Boulevard in...
Jakes rescue man from fume-filled car
Boston, MA - By smashing through a car window, fast-acting Boston firefighters yesterday prevented what might have been Boston's third fatal carbon monoxide poisoning over the blizzard weekend.People in the neighborhood called, saying they saw an older gentleman...
3 families displaced in natural gas explosion
Fitchburg, MA- FITCHBURG, Mass. Three families displaced by a natural gas explosion Tuesday night at the nearby Victory Auto Parts are not expected to be allowed back in their homes until sometime next week, the building inspector said Wednesday. Meanwhile, the gas...