2 Dead, 4 Injured After Apparent Carbon Monoxide Poisoning in Chicago

  • Source: Forest Park Patch
  • Published: 09/13/2021 03:33 AM

Two women are dead and four people are injured, including three children, from an apparent carbon monoxide poisoning at a home in the Little Village neighborhood Friday afternoon. Chicago Fire Department spokesman Larry Merritt told reporters fire officials were called to the house on the 2800 block of West 22nd Place at around 1:40 p.m. when a neighbor smelled gas coming from the building. Firefighters pried their way inside the home and found a woman in her 50s and another woman in her 70s dead in the basement unit of the house. An entire family on the first floor — one adult and three children — were taken to Stroger Hospital where they are listed in stable condition. No one else was found in a sweep of the home. According to Merritt, carbon monoxide levels inside the home were measured at 200 parts per million. Experts classify exposure to a measurement of 150 parts per million as extremely dangerous.



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