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Carbon Monoxide Poisoning

Monday, January 28, 2013

Update: Morton Grove Alum, 18, Dies In CO Poisoning

An 18-year-old alumna of a Morton Grove school, and her grandmother, died Sunday in a carbon monoxide poisoning. Five other family members, including a current 6th grader, are hospitalized.

  UPDATE Amina Ahmed, a sixth-grader at the MCC Full-Time School, and the other four children in the family have all been released from the hospital, MCC Full-Time School Vice Principal Arshi Mujtaba said Tuesday. Also, a funeral was held Tuesday for the two victims.  ORIGINAL STORY Zainab Ahmed, an 18-year-old alum of Morton Grove's Muslim Community Center Full-Time School, died Sunday of suspected carbon monoxide poisoning at her family's home in the West Rogers Park neighborhood of Chicago, according to the school. The girl's 77-year-old grandmother, Rasheeda Akhter, also died, according to WGN News.  A current sixth-grader at the school, Amina Ahmed, is hospitalized, along with four other family members, said Arshi Mujtaba, vice …

Tuesday, July 12, 2011

Generator Danger: Glenview Family Rushed to Hospital with CO Poisoning

Officials say the culprit was an improperly ventilated gas generator in use during the power outage.

Generators are no joke. The Sulski family learned that the hard way this morning when an improperly ventilated gas unit in use because of the power outage caused their home to fill with carbon monoxide verified near 600 parts per million. The Glenview Fire Department was on the scene around 7:10 a.m. and the five family members were rushed to Lutheran General. “We had used the generator for the last storm and set it up in exactly the same place,” Rob Sulski told Patch this afternoon. The Sulski’s generator was positioned slightly away from their home, but because of the grueling heat, the family was using a portable air conditioning unit in a nearby window.  “Our best guess is that the air conditioning unit pulled in the fumes from the …

Beliss

12:22 am on Friday, September 9, 2011

My dad just ran of high pressure and my sister on headache they had put the generater inside the church building what can happen /????   more ›

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