CO Deaths

[Mike Lamb]

From the Chicago Tribune:

CO leak caused 2 deaths: 'They were very good people' - chicagotribune.com (http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/chi-two-dead-after-apparent-carbon-monoxide-leak-in-west-rogers-park-building-20130127,0,6963664.story)

[Lon Henderson]

Crap! I had heard that only bad people were killed by CO.

[Jerry Peck]

Crap! I had heard that only bad people were killed by CO.

Even "good people" are killed by CO, but ... "very good people" ... why would that happen? :)
(Maybe they weren't so "very good" or maybe they would have had CO detectors?)

[Mike Lamb]

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It is tragic.

Three were succumbed and two died. CO poisoning can leave the living as vegetables.

[Richard Skalski]

Yes, it is troublesome to lose someone to something so preventable.

[H.G. Watson, Sr.]

Low level constant from the bsement boiler and stack effect when the temperatures dropped. The sole CO monitor/alarm in the basement laundry room never went off since the laundry room window was left open as the occupants didn't like the headaches they got whenever using the laundry. A neighbor from the next building was interviewed with a few CO detectors in her arms that same evening when yet a third fell ill on the CFDs second visit to the property hours later. Sad and tragic.

[Raymond Wand]

Underlying heart condition will lower ones threshold to CO.