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Major Carbon Monoxide Leak Found in Wis. Apartment BUilding

Authorities say nearly a dozen people were taken to the hospital after a carbon monoxide leak was found in an apartment building in New London, Wis. The New London Fire Department says firefighters were called to the scene about 6 …

North Dakota Family Survives Carbon Monoxide Scare

Members of a Fargo, N.D., family are recovering in a hospital after a carbon monoxide scare. KVLY-TV reports that members of the Al and Shirley Shafer family became sick Thursday morning. Daughter Amanda ran off to buy a carbon monoxide …

Insurer Asks Nebraska Court to Review Carbon Monoxide Case

An insurance company is asking a federal court to absolve it from paying a claim by the widow of a central Nebraska church pastor who died of carbon monoxide poisoning in a house owned by the church. John Green had …

Carbon Monoxide Suspected in West Virginia Man’s Death

Carbon monoxide poisoning is suspected in the death of a Westover man and the sickening of five other people. Westover Police Lt. A.A. Livengood tells The Dominion Post that police went to the 25-year-old man’s home early Monday morning after …

3 People Treated for Carbon Monoxide Poisoning

Fire rescue officials say three people were rushed to the hospital with carbon monoxide poisoning after a car was left running inside the garage of a Palm Harbor house. Authorities say a guest staying with a 60-year-old woman felt light-headed …

Carbon Monoxide Leak Sends 12 in Oklahoma to Hospital

Fire officials say 12 people staying a Norman hotel were taken to a hospital after breathing toxic levels of carbon monoxide. Deputy Fire Chief Jim Bailey says the fire department was called late Monday after a 3-year-old child fell ill …

Fumes Sicken Construction Crew in Central Pennsylvania

Fire officials say several construction workers had to be taken to the hospital in central Pennsylvania after a piece of machinery filled the building they were working in with carbon monoxide fumes. West York Fire Department Capt. Stew Frey says …

Massachusetts Family Overcome by Carbon Monoxide

Four members of a Cape Cod family are being treated for symptoms of carbon monoxide poisoning. Eastham Fire Captain Steve Burns says a husband and wife and their two sons were rushed from their home to Cape Cod Hospital shortly …

Lawsuit Filed in Utah Propane Camp Heater Deaths

The families of two Colorado residents killed while camping in Utah have filed a lawsuit against the company that made the products blamed for the deaths. Steven Dowdy, 28, of Clifton, Colo., and 10-year-old Darian Thomlinson, of Grand Junction, Colo., …