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Ohio Prison Inmates, Staff Treated for Carbon Monoxide

Caldwell, OH - Officials say 29 inmates and four staff members have been treated for exposure to carbon monoxide at a medium-security state prison in southeastern Ohio.The Marietta Times reports an assistant warden at Noble Correctional Institution says a malfunction...

Carbon monoxide poisoning suspected in Greenwood man’s death

Greenwood, SC - Officials suspect carbon monoxide poisoning was the likely cause of death Wednesday morning for a Greenwood man who brought a generator inside his house.Brian Bennett Hudgens, 44, of 420 Circle Drive, Greenwood died at about 11:30 a.m. Wednesday, said...

Carbon monoxide poisoning sends 4 to the hospital

Las Cruces, NM - A carbon monoxide scare sent four people to the hospital over the weekend.Las Cruces police and firefighters were called to a local pecan processing plant just before 5 a.m. Sunday where several employees were overcome by toxic fumes.Two of the...

Explosion destroys home in Milnor, N.D.

Milnor, ND - Investigators believe a newly-installed furnace may have caused an explosion that leveled a home Saturday morning in Milnor, N.D.Sargent County Sheriff Travis Paeper tells KFGO News there were no injuries. The home was destroyed.He says a small fire...

Carbon monoxide kills man, injures women in LI home, police say

Long Island, NY - One man was killed and his wife was hospitalized from apparent carbon monoxide poisoning in their Melville home Thursday morning, Suffolk police said.Stephen Yancofski, 55, was found unconscious in the Scott Drive home and taken to Plainview Hospital...