Nashville, TN – Two people are still recovering at Vanderbilt University Medical Center after a carbon monoxide leak at The Westin hotel in downtown Nashville on Wednesday sickened 12 people, their conditions are currently unknown.
Nashville Fire Department spokesman Joseph Pleasant said the fire department first received a call at 6:45 a.m. Wednesday after several people who were working out on the third floor became sick.
The incident was isolated to the third floor of the hotel, which houses a workout area, a swimming pool and several offices.
Pleasant said the reading on the third floor showed a level of 500 ppm. He acknowledged it may have been higher than that, but that’s as far as their tools can measure. For comparison, a normal reading is 35 ppm.
When the fire department arrived, four of the victims were already outside. The others were found on the third floor.
“The people were working out, they were the first ones to indicate that something was wrong because they got sick and got out of there,” Pleasant said. “Had this happened overnight, possibly had it happen in an area where people were sleeping, it could have been a very much different outcome.”