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Carbon Monoxide Scare

Carbon Monoxide Scare - Tuesday, January 6, 2009 at 12:18PM EST

Tuesday, Jan 6, 2009 @ 12:18pm EST

Carbon monoxide leaked into the basement of a home at 338 Putnam Street in Scranton Tuesday morning.

Fortunately, the families in the house had carbon monoxide alarms.

About 500 people die from carbon monoxide poisoning every year in this country.

These families on Putnam Street did the right thing to make sure they're not part of those statistics.

George Ponce says his family is lucky to have a carbon monoxide alarm.

"I didn't smell anything. If not we wouldn't be here I guess,” says Ponce .

At about 5 Tuesday morning, the alarm woke up Ponce and his downstairs neighbor.

"My neighbor heard his before I did, I'm upstairs. And when he heard it, he was able to call the fire department immediately, which that was good."

A boiler in the basement at 338 Putnam Street was letting out steam, and carbon monoxide.

In all, 10 people were evacuated from the home.

The fire department says a few minutes more, and things could have been a lot worse.

Scranton Fire Department Captain Jim Cooney says, "Very lucky. You know sometimes you can attribute to a false alarm, or the batteries week but in this situation it was a good call. And you know we have to come out and check them regardless and they got lucky here with this."

The fire department tested the building with it's own c-o detectors, like this one.

Scranton fire fighters say a safe reading is about 3 parts per million.

The readings in this house were about 100 parts per million.

UGI also tested and then shut the gas off.

Fire fighters say Ponce 's family can move back into their upstairs home this morning.

Ponce says he'll let his downstairs neighbors stay with him until the boiler is fixed.

If the fire department hadn't got there so quickly, the leak could have lasted all day.

Being that carbon monoxide is odorless, if gone unnoticed, those families could have died if they continued to inhale the fumes.
 


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