A elderly surgeon died of apparent carbon monoxide poisoning in an Arkansas hunting club last weekend. http://www.baxterbulletin.com/article/20110112/NEWS01/101120337 Dr. Tom Bell of Harrison, Ark., and William Hicks of Yellville, Ark., were found unconscious Saturday morning in a duck club. Bell, 75, died and Hicks was brought to a Little Rock hospital, where he was in serious condition, according […]
Eleven students and a staff member at a Vermont school were hospitalized for carbon monoxide poisoning Thursday, according to the Associated Press. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/01/06/AR2011010603080.html The poisoning took place at a school in Putney, Vt., which was evacuated. The sick students were taken to Brattleboro Memorial Hospital, with some already released and the rest expected to be released. According to AP, 25 […]
Five teenagers were found dead in a Hialeah, Fla., motel, the apparent victims of carbon monoxide poisoning, according to several press reports. http://www.miamiherald.com/2010/12/27/1990337/five-men-found-dead-inside-hialeah.html# One of the youths, Juchen Martial, had wanted to go to the motel, the Hotel Presidente, Sunday to celebrate his 19th birthday. But the car the group had driven, a Kia Optima, had been […]
A South Chicago man was killed by carbon monoxide poisoning at his home Saturday night, according to the Chicago Sun-Times. http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/2815002-418/carbon-monoxide-according-charles-died.html The victim, 45-year-old Leroy Charles, was found by a member of his family at roughly 8 p.m. on South Merrill Avenue. The city fire department was called in to conduct a carbon monoxide test […]
There was a senseless double tragedy in Chicago this week, as two people were killed by carbon monoxide poisoning on separate days in the same home in the West Englewood neighborhood, according to the Chicago Sun-Times. The second death was caused because a faulty boiler wasn’t repaired after the first death. http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/2923890,CST-NWS-monoxide1126.article# Both Edward Henderson, 52, and […]
A nursing home in suburban Rochester, N.Y., had to be evacuated due to high levels of carbon monoxide, which made three residents ill early Thanksgiving Day, according to the Associated Press. http://online.wsj.com/article/AP045c152fbb704503bbd9396601fc7234.html# Firefighters responded to the Latta Road Nursing home in Greece, N.Y., right before dawn Thanksgiving. They found potentially deadly carbon monoxide in one […]
The death of a woman and her daughter, apparent victims of carbon monoxide poisoning, are under investigation in Colorado, according to the Denver Post. http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_16653435 The bodies of the woman, Patrice Clark, and the 9-year-old, Nicole, were found in the garage of the woman’s home on Lafayette, Colo. The Denver Post story quoted the employer of the […]
Four people were hospitalized Monday following a carbon monoxide leak in a Green Bay, Wis., apartment building, according to the Green Bay Press Gazette. http://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/article/20101115/GPG0101/101115011/4-hospitalized-after-carbon-monoxide-leak-at-west-side-apartment-building?GID=1J2vVsSUrLwpSZrHMcsk7+uSsMoV+9sLWlVplzyJJ9A%3D After getting a call for help, firefighters came to the building on Shawano Avenue on Green Bay’s west side about 5 a.m. They smelled the odor of natural gas, and found a dangerous level […]
Here is a horrendous case of carbon monoxide poisoning: A family from Denver wins a holiday stay in Aspen in a charity auction, and all four family members die on Thanksgiving 2008 from the lethal fumes at the vacation home. Parker Lofgren, 39, his wife Caroline, 42, and their children Sophie, 8, and Owen, 10, died in […]
Toyota is being sued in a case where a lawyer was killed, and his companion rendered brain damaged, from carbon monoxide poisoning from a luxury Lexus, according to the New York Daily News. http://www.nydailynews.com/news/2010/11/07/2010-11-07_keyless_ignition_deadly_exclusive_toyota_sued_in_carbon_monoxide_tragedy_that_ki.html The wrongful death lawsuit blames the keyless feature that was part of the Lexus sedan for causing the death in Queens of attorney Ernest Codelia Jr., […]