More than two dozen people were evacuated from an apartment complex in a suburb of Syracuse, N.Y., Sunday, due to a carbon monoxide leak, according to CNYCentral.com. At least a handful of people were hospitalized, the website reported, adding that it was the second such leak in the past three days. http://www.cnycentral.com/news/story.aspx?id=907579#.UbVNGdh9tvR The incident happened […]
A Christmas Day fire in Connecticut killed a 9-year-old girl, her twin 7-year-old sisters and their grandparents. But some good has come of their tragic deaths in 2911. The Nutmeg State’s Senate on Wednesday passed a bill that mandates that one- and two-family homes have carbon monoxide and smoke detectors in place at the time […]
The El Cortez Hotel in Reno had its second carbon monoxide leak in three weeks, according to KOLO. http://www.kolotv.com/news/headlines/El-Cortez-Hotel-Evacuated-Due-to-Carbon-Monoxide-Leak-209803021.html On Saturday visitors were evacuated from the hotel after a carbon monoxide detector sounded an alert. Several local fire department engines responded to the scene, KOLO said. The visitors were later allowed to return to the […]
In 2012, an 18-year-old Marine died of carbon monoxide poisoning in an apartment in Idaho. There is a lawsuit pending over the death of McQuen Forbush. And information reported last week by the Idaho Statesman may help the plaintiffs in that case. The newspaper got a-hold of internal documents from the former property management company […]
One of the two people who were hospitalized after suffering carbon monoxide poisoning Sunday while boating has died, according to the San Luis Obispo Tribune. http://www.sanluisobispo.com/2013/05/30/2527743/woman-dead-nacimiento-lake.html The victim was Sandy Valencia, 23, of Salinas, Calif., according to a press release from the San Luis Obispo County Sheriff’s Department. http://www.slosheriff.org/_Press/PRView.aspx The release said that Valencia was […]
A couple that had been boating on Nacimiento Lake in San Luis Obispo County, Calif., was hospitalized for carbon monoxide poisoning Sunday, according to The Tribune News. http://www.sanluisobispo.com/2013/05/28/2524836/nacimiento-lake-carbon-monoxide.html The man and woman were in their boat’s stern and apparently breathed in exhaust from its engine, the newspaper reported. Sheriff’s deputies were called over to the […]
Maybe now their surviving relatives will have some peace. In 2008 an entire family that had won a stay at a luxurious mansion in Aspen died of carbon monoxide poisoning at the place. The victims were Parker Lofgren, 39, Caroline Lofgren, 42, and their children Owen, 10, and Sophie, 8. On Thursday, a settlement was […]
Dozens of guests at a hotel in Oshkosh, Wis., were evacuated Monday morning because of a carbon monoxide leak, according to The Oshkosh Northwestern. http://www.thenorthwestern.com/article/20130513/OSH0101/305130299/Oshkosh-hotel-evacuated-after-carbon-monoxide-leak?nclick_check=1 Oshkosh firefighters responded to the Hilton Garden Inn on West 20th Avenue shortly before 5 a.m. after a carbon monoxide detector went off, the local newspaper reported. The first responders […]
A Reno, Nev., hotel was evacuated Saturday after several guests got ill from carbon monoxide, according to KTVN-TV. http://www.ktvn.com/story/22226084/elevated-carbon-monoxide-levels-prompt-evacuation-in-downtown-reno The Reno Fire Department was called to the El Cortez Hotel after guests said they felt sick around 3:30 p.m., the TV station reported. The respondents detected high levels of carbon monoxide at the hotel, and […]
A Missouri mother did her family a good deed on Mother’s Day: She saved them from dying of carbon monoxide poisoning. The incident happened in Florissant, Mo., when a mother woke up about 8 a.m. in her home on Stonehaven, according to Fox2Now. It’s unclear exactly how and why from the story, but the woman […]