#carbon-monoxide

#carbon-monoxide

Around 11 p.m. Sunday, residents inside a West 6th Street home between Avenues U and T began feeling ill, prompting firefighters to respond to a report of an unconscious person. Crews found 12 people suffering from symptoms consistent with carbon monoxide exposure, and initial readings inside the home measured about 300 parts per million - a dangerous level, according to safety officials.

At least two people remained hospitalized early Monday, hours after a carbon monoxide leak spewed fumes throughout a three-family Brooklyn home late Sunday, authorities say. According to investigators, a 17-year-old girl and a 25-year-old woman both felt woozy around 11 p.m. at the home, on West Sixth Street, between Avenue U and Avenue T in Gravesend. They told other family members, who called 911.

He said insulation was slowly burning in the walls and between the two buildings, which has led to smoke and high levels of carbon monoxide. This is going to be a prolonged event every time we thought we had it under control, it came back up, said Jessop, adding residents of both buildings have been evacuated. This is certainly probably the most challenging fire to extinguish that Toronto has seen in years.

A man was found dead in a vehicle Wednesday morning at the I-93 rest area in Hooksett, New Hampshire, according to State Police. At about 7:30 a.m., troopers located the body in the vehicle, which was parked at the southbound rest stop. "At this time, investigators have no information to indicate the death is suspicious in nature," police said, noting authorities were investigating if carbon monoxide was a factor.

Carbon monoxide is a quiet assassin. Odorless and colorless, it has a uniquely efficient ability to starve the body of oxygen: It acts quickly, building up in the bloodstream and attaching to hemoglobin in oxygen's place. When oxygen can't attach, red blood cells don't transport it around the body, effectively suffocating the organs. This gas, a common by-product of incomplete fuel combustion, causes 50,000 to 100,000 emergency room visits and 1,500 deaths in the U.S. each year.