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Scary carbon monoxide situation in Madelia
Madelia, MN - The Madelia Fire Department was called to a carbon monoxide alarm on the city’s southeast side. The department arrived to find dangerous carbon monoxide levels. An inspection by an HVAC professional found a comination of a faulty damper, an animal...
Carbon monoxide leak causes 50 people to be evacuated from north Lincoln apartment
Lincoln, NE - Lincoln Fire and Rescue investigated high carbon monoxide levels at an apartment complex on Thursday. LFR arrived at the 48th and Holdrege apartments at around 9 p.m. According to officials, firefighters went room to room with masks because the air was...
Carbon monoxide at Jorgenson’s in Helena sends five to hospital
Helena, MT - Five people including four guests of Jorgenson's Inn & Suites were transported to St. Peter's Health for carbon monoxide exposure late Thursday night, after a leak was found emanating from the hotel's pool heater. Helena Fire Department responded to...
1 dead, 2 flown to hospital after suspected carbon monoxide poisoning
Icard, NC — Investigators believe carbon monoxide poisoning might have killed a 50-year-old man and made two others so sick they had to be airlifted to a hospital in Burke County last weekend. It happened in a camper along Fox Drive, south of Icard, on Feb. 1....
Elderly Somerville Resident Saved By Carbon Monoxide Alarm
SOMERVILLE, MA — An elderly resident was saved by a carbon monoxide detector installed under a grant program, according to the Somerville Fire Department. Firefighters were called to a Central Street home to investigate a fire alarm and found a carbon monoxide...
KCFD helps three people, two of them children, with carbon monoxide poisoning
Kern County, CA - Three people, two of them minors, were treated for carbon monoxide poisoning at a residence this morning. The Kern County Fire Department said at around 5:30 a.m., firefighters were sent to a local residence after getting a medical aid call. The...
Carbon Monoxide incident closes Marblehead School
Boston, MA - Two people were taken to Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston after emergency crews responded Friday morning to a possible carbon monoxide incident at Coffin Elementary School. The school was closed after the incident for the remainder of the school...
More than 1,000 evacuated from Cordova school because of carbon monoxide leak
Cordova, TN - More than 1,000 students and staff were evacuated from Kate Bond Middle School Thursday because of a carbon monoxide leak. The Memphis Fire Department responded to the school in Cordova just after 1 p.m. MFD says 1,050 students and staff were evacuated....
Grayson County home destroyed by gas explosion; mother and child injured
MILLWOOD, Ky. — A charred mess is all that is left of a Grayson County home after a gas explosion Wednesday night. A mother and her daughter were both injured in the explosion. Family members told WHAS the victims are Angela Young and her seven-year-old daughter,...
Man Injured In Ice House Explosion On Lake Of The Woods
LAKE OF THE WOODS, MN - A man was injured in a propane explosion at an ice house on Lake of the Woods. Brandon Marudas, 36 of Warroad and formerly of Big Lake Minnesota was on Lake of the Woods filling propane tanks on Wednesday, January 22nd when he was injured in...
Propane explosion ignites house
Seeley Lake, MT – Tuesday night, Jan. 21 the Seeley Lake Fire Department was paged out to a structure fire on Leota Peak Court. When Fire Chief Dave Lane arrived, the family was outside. They explained that there was a propane explosion. No one was injured and while...
25 people hospitalized after Donnelly carbon monoxide leak
Donnelly, ID — A majority of the 25 people taken to the hospital Monday morning following a carbon monoxide leak in Donnelly have been treated and released. Fifteen of those sickened were children. First responders at 6:27 a.m. arrived at a vacation home where the...
Deputies: Carbon monoxide poisoning may have killed elderly NSB couple
New Smyrna Beach, FL - An elderly New Smyrna Beach couple found dead in their condo on Sunday possibly died of carbon monoxide poisoning, investigators with the Volusia County Sheriff’s Office said. Authorities were called to the Sea Winds condominiums, 4875 S....
Selma family, pets poisoned by carbon monoxide
Selma, NC — A community is raising money to help a family of four that was poisoned by carbon monoxide after they used a generator to heat their home Friday night. According to firefighters, the family had no electricity at their home on Jordan Narron Road and used a...
2 dead after propane explosion in northern Minnesota
Itasca County, MN - Two people are dead after an explosion in rural Itasca County in northern Minnesota. The explosion happened just before 7:30 a.m. Thursday with the sheriff's office being alerted by a 911 caller who reported a structure fire near Turtle Lake. The...