Pittsburgh, PA – Jody Miller and several children are staying at a local hotel after getting carbon monoxide poisoning inside a Hempfield Township home. They were rushed to a hospital and are recovering.
She said, “The worst thing that I think about is not so much my life, but is me waking up in the morning and one of my babies not being alive. I can’t live without them. They are everything to me.”
Miller and four children were inside the home when carbon monoxide detector alarms began blaring.
“The carbon monoxide alarms went off that had been put in the previous evening,” Miller said.
Miller said she had those detectors installed after smelling gas in the Keystone Avenue home and then falling ill.
She said, “I was very sick that evening. I was throwing up and I’m still not feeling well. The kids were sick. I didn’t know all the time my kids were being poisoned. My kids could have died, but they didn’t. I could have died, but I didn’t.”
Carbon monoxide is an odorless gas.
Miller said officials at the scene told her she had two deadly situations at hand.
She said, “I heard the gas company say it smells like gas. He said we have to shut the gas off.”
Fire officials warned them of the high levels of carbon monoxide in the home.
Miller said everyone is safe and she’s glad her 2-year old and 6-year old were not at home at the time because that would have put more lives in danger.