Latest Breaking News

Hissyspit

(45,788 posts) Sun Feb 23, 2014, 12:28 AM Feb 2014

Carbon Monoxide Detected at NY Mall, 1 Dead

Source: Associated Press

CARBON MONOXIDE DETECTED AT NY MALL, 1 DEAD

Feb. 22, 2014 10:56 PM EST

HUNTINGTON STATION, N.Y. (AP) — A hospital spokeswoman says a man has died after being overcome by carbon monoxide at a New York mall.

Huntington Hospital spokeswoman Julie Robinson-Tingue says the man was one of 10 people brought in after the carbon monoxide incident Saturday at the Walt Whitman Shops in Huntington Station on Long Island. The hospital did not immediately release any information about the man.

Suffolk County police earlier said three officers were among those overcome by carbon monoxide at the mall, which is about 35 miles east of New York City. They responded to a call shortly after 6 p.m.

Robinson-Tingue said three people were being treated at the hospital and the others have been discharged.

Read more: http://bigstory.ap.org/article/5-hospitalized-due-carbon-monoxide-ny-mall

11 replies

= new reply since forum marked as read

Highlight:

Carbon Monoxide Detected at NY Mall, 1 Dead (Original Post) Hissyspit Feb 2014 OP

Whoa! Not good.. poor Cha Feb 2014 #1

Better story here Warpy Feb 2014 #2

That's why CO alarms are a must. Spitfire of ATJ Feb 2014 #3

I have one. Warpy Feb 2014 #4

I know someone with an old pellet burner. Spitfire of ATJ Feb 2014 #7

? So a heating system, which would vent carbon monoxide out a stack, jtuck004 Feb 2014 #5

I've pulled a dead bat out of a vent. Spitfire of ATJ Feb 2014 #6

Or a dead pigeon or other varmint Warpy Feb 2014 #8

The man who died is a restaurant manager, and several restaurants were evacuated jmowreader Feb 2014 #9

Sometimes those things just crack over time from wear. Frank Cannon Feb 2014 #11

The Walt Whitman shops Tien1985 Feb 2014 #10

Cha

(297,768 posts)

1. Whoa! Not good.. poor

Reply to Hissyspit (Original post)

Sun Feb 23, 2014, 12:34 AM

Feb 2014

guy.

Warpy

(111,367 posts)

2. Better story here

Reply to Hissyspit (Original post)

Sun Feb 23, 2014, 12:43 AM

Feb 2014

http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?section=news/local/long_island&id=9441847

They think it was the restaurant's heating system at this point.

Spitfire of ATJ

(32,723 posts)

3. That's why CO alarms are a must.

Reply to Warpy (Reply #2)

Sun Feb 23, 2014, 12:48 AM

Feb 2014

Warpy

(111,367 posts)

4. I have one.

Reply to Spitfire of ATJ (Reply #3)

Sun Feb 23, 2014, 12:54 AM

Feb 2014

I got it because my floor furnace is almost 70 years old. It's still hanging in there. I don't ask too much of it.

Spitfire of ATJ

(32,723 posts)

7. I know someone with an old pellet burner.

Reply to Warpy (Reply #4)

Sun Feb 23, 2014, 01:14 AM

Feb 2014

jtuck004

(15,882 posts)

5. ? So a heating system, which would vent carbon monoxide out a stack,

Reply to Warpy (Reply #2)

Sun Feb 23, 2014, 01:04 AM

Feb 2014

and maybe it had to be powered, instead had that gas diverted to an occupied space by ?

A ton of rags stuffed in a big vent?

Did someone do some construction and remove a piece of what would be the chimney, and open it to occupied space?

Just thinking about how this might happen in a commercial building, which should have some sort of manual safety (a chimney properly vented to the outside, etc)

Wood stove?