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Carbon Monoxide Kills Pair In South Jersey: Report Carbon Monoxide Kills Pair In South Jersey: Report
Carbon Monoxide Kills Pair In South Jersey: Report Two people in South Jersey were found dead of what authorities believe was carbon monoxide poisoning on Tuesday, Dec. 13, NJ Advance Media reports. The bodies were apparently found in a home on Monroe Street in Paulsboro. An official cause of death awaits completion of an investigation by the medical examiner’s office, the outlet said, quoting Tom Gilbert, chief of detectives with the Gloucester County Prosecutor's Office. No further information was provided. Click here for the complete story by NJ Advance Media.

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by Jon Craig
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Child Hospitalized In Deadly Overnight CO Leak In Hawthorne: Here's What You Should Know Child Hospitalized In Deadly Overnight CO Leak In Hawthorne: Here's What You Should Know
Child Hospitalized In Deadly Overnight CO Leak In Hawthorne: Here's What You Should Know A working carbon monoxide alarm hopefully prevented a holiday-season tragedy before dawn Monday in Hawthorne, responders said. A child was hospitalized for potential CO poisoning during the overnight incident on Westervelt Avenue off North 14th Street on Dec. 12, they said. The youngster's condition couldn't immediately be determined. Other family members were treated and released, responders said. Hawthorne firefighters registered a reading of 301 parts per million (PPM) of the colorless, odorless gas on the second floor -- enough to cause almost certain death. The first-floor reading w…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Adult, Three Kids Stricken By CO Poisoning In Hackensack Home Adult, Three Kids Stricken By CO Poisoning In Hackensack Home
Adult, Three Kids Stricken By CO Poisoning In Hackensack Home A holiday season tragedy was avoided Tuesday when a Hackensack woman and three young children were hospitalized for carbon monoxide poisoning, authorities said. A malfunctioning boiler in their two-family home on Atlantic Street off Railroad Avenue sent all four to Hackensack University Medical Center early on Dec. 6, said Police Capt. Michael Antista, the officer in charge of the city police department. Fortunately, the injuries to the 39-year-old adult and three children -- ages 12, 9 and 5 -- weren't life-threatening, Antista said. Readings of 200 PPM of the colorless, odorless gas were…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Police & Fire
Three Americans Found Dead In Mexico City AirBnb Three Americans Found Dead In Mexico City AirBnb
Three Americans Found Dead In Mexico City AirBnb Three Americans were found dead under unknown circumstances at an Airbnb in Mexico City, multiple news outlets are reporting. Local police found the bodies of Kandace Florence and Jordan Marshall, both 28 and of Virginia Beach, and Courtez Hall, 33, of New Orleans, LA, at their vacation rental on Oct. 30, WAVY first reported. According to the city prosecutor's office, security guards mentioned smelling gas, leading authorities to believe their deaths were possibly caused by carbon monoxide poisoning, Bloomberg reports.  However, the investigation remains ongoing, and the&nbs…

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by Nicole Acosta
Police & Fire
North Jersey Motel Guest Hospitalized, Manager Charged In CO Alarm Scare: Report North Jersey Motel Guest Hospitalized, Manager Charged In CO Alarm Scare: Report
North Jersey Motel Guest Hospitalized, Manager Charged In CO Alarm Scare: Report A guest at a Days Inn motel in North Jersey was hospitalized and the manager was charged following a carbon monoxide scare that evacuated the building Sunday, WRNJ reports. Kushalkum R. Patel, 33, is accused of neglecting to call the police and “placing guests in imminent danger” when he told them that the Days Inn on Route 46 in Budd Lake was safe despite carbon monoxide alarms going off for several hours, the outlet reports citing police. The Budd Lake and Flanders fire department responded shortly before 12:15 a.m. to evacuate guests, one of whom was taken to a local hospital, the report…

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by Valerie Musson
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Destructive Rockland Shopping Center Fire Continues Burning For Hours, Bergen Companies Assist Destructive Rockland Shopping Center Fire Continues Burning For Hours, Bergen Companies Assist
Destructive Rockland Shopping Center Fire Continues Burning For Hours, Bergen Companies Assist UPDATE: Six firefighters were hospitalized with minor injuries Sunday in a stubborn hours-long blaze that broke out in a basement gun range, spread through a Rockland County shopping center and continued burning late into the night, authorities said. Firefighters from Mahwah, Montvale, Oradell and River Vale were among more than 100 from Rockland, Westchester and Bergen counties either at the Pearl River scene or in coverage through the afternoon and into the evening. The sneaky blaze began shortly before noon in the long-gun range at the Rockland Indoor Shooting Education Center -- common…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Deadly Levels Of CO Overcome Dumont Couple Deadly Levels Of CO Overcome Dumont Couple
Deadly Levels Of CO Overcome Dumont Couple Two Dumont residents who were overcome by carbon monoxide gas were rescued by responders. Both were taken to Englewood Hospital and Medical Center after police, firefighters and EMS members responded to the Niagara Street home shortly before 3:30 p.m. Wednesday. The male resident was revived by CPR and brought to the hospital's Intensive Care Unit, responders said. The female resident was transferred to the Jacobi Medical Center in the Bronx, they said. Her condition couldn't be determined. Their dog survived, responders said. Police first responded to the 911 after a neighbor and friend…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Woman, 89, Found Dead, Vehicle Running At Totowa Home, Carbon Monoxide Suspected Woman, 89, Found Dead, Vehicle Running At Totowa Home, Carbon Monoxide Suspected
Woman, 89, Found Dead, Vehicle Running At Totowa Home, Carbon Monoxide Suspected An 89-year-old Totowa woman was found dead of apparent carbon monoxide poisoning at her home Saturday afternoon. A family member found Ethel Rosskopf unresponsive on the kitchen floor and a vehicle with its engine running in the garage of the home at Knollwood Road and Meadow Drive, Passaic County Prosecutor Camelia M. Valdes and Totowa Police Chief Carmen Veneziano said in a joint announcement. Rosskopf was pronounced dead at the scene.  Authorities found the carbon monoxide level in the home at 200 parts per million, as opposed to the ordinary reading of 0 parts per million. "…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Police & Fire
UPDATE: Carbon Monoxide Suicide Eyed In Deaths Of Brothers Found In Old Tappan Garage UPDATE: Carbon Monoxide Suicide Eyed In Deaths Of Brothers Found In Old Tappan Garage
Update: Carbon Monoxide Suicide Eyed In Deaths Of Brothers Found In Old Tappan Garage Authorities were awaiting autopsy results to determine the official causes of death of two brothers whose bodies were found in the garage of the family’s Old Tappan home in an apparent double suicide. Insuh Yoon, 36, and David Yoon, 39, were in grade school when they emigrated to the United States with their mother from Seoul, South Korea more than 25 years ago. Their bodies were found early Friday in a Nissan Rogue parked in the garage of a home at the end of a heavily wooded cul-de-sac in Old Tappan near the Rockland County border, multiple responders said. They'd been in the SUV “more …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Police & Fire
CO Scare Clears Saddle Brook Day Care Center CO Scare Clears Saddle Brook Day Care Center
CO Scare Clears Saddle Brook Day Care Center A Saddle Brook day care center that had 15 children and staff inside was evacuated Wednesday when carbon monoxide detectors were activated, authorities said. A propane tank being used by workers in an adjoining storefront that formerly housed the Kim-Bridge card and flower shop apparently was to blame for the incident at the TLC Plus III on Market Street, Police Chief Robert Kugler said. An ambulance was dispatched as a precaution but wasn't needed, Kugler said. "The contractor was using a propane-fueled concrete cutter," the chief said. "Fumes swept through building into the daycare cente…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Feds Fine Cresskill Landscaper $17K After Carbon Monoxide Kills 2 Workers Feds Fine Cresskill Landscaper $17K After Carbon Monoxide Kills 2 Workers
Feds Fine Cresskill Landscaper $17K After Carbon Monoxide Kills 2 Workers A Cresskill landscaper was fined more than $17,000 by the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration for exposing employees to carbon monoxide -- killing two of them. Police found two AJR Landscaping Inc. workers overcome by fumes from a running lawnmower with them in a closed trailer in Washington Township around 8 a.m. last December. The West New York landscapers were found unresponsive and not breathing on the ground at the  17-acre Washington Pond condominium complex off Pascack Road and Linwood Avenue. CPR was conducted on both at the scene before they were rushed…

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by Cecilia Levine
Police & Fire
2nd Landscaper Overcome By Mower Fumes At Washington Township Condo Complex Dies 2nd Landscaper Overcome By Mower Fumes At Washington Township Condo Complex Dies
2nd Landscaper Overcome By Mower Fumes At Washington Township Condo Complex Dies UPDATE: The second of two West New York landscapers overcome by carbon monoxide fumes from a running lawnmower that was with them in a closed trailer in Washington Township has succumbed to his injuries. Police found both men on the ground, not breathing, at the 17-acre Washington Pond condominium complex off Pascack Road and Linwood Avenue just after 8 a.m. Dec. 11 CPR was conducted on both at the scene before they were rushed to The Valley Hospital. The men "appeared to be overcome by the fumes of a running lawnmower in the trailer," Detective Heather Castronova said at the time.&nb…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Police & Fire
Landscaper Overcome By Mower Fumes At Washington Township Condo Complex Dies Landscaper Overcome By Mower Fumes At Washington Township Condo Complex Dies
Landscaper Overcome By Mower Fumes At Washington Township Condo Complex Dies UPDATE: A 26-year-old landscaper died after he and a co-worker were overcome by lawnmower carbon monoxide fumes Tuesday morning in a trailer in Washington Township, authorities said. There was no word yet on the second victim's condition. Police found both on the ground, not breathing, at the 17-acre Washington Pond condominium complex off Pascack Road and Linwood Avenue just after 8 a.m. CPR was conducted on both at the scene before they were rushed to The Valley Hospital. Both from West New York, the men "appeared to be overcome by the fumes of a running lawnmower in the trailer," D…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Business
Be Sure Your Fireplace, Chimney Furnace Are Safe, North Jersey Expert Warns Be Sure Your Fireplace, Chimney Furnace Are Safe, North Jersey Expert Warns
Be Sure Your Fireplace, Chimney Furnace Are Safe, North Jersey Expert Warns If you still haven’t gotten your fireplace or chimney furnace checked this season, be sure you do sooner rather than later, local professional Douglas Lee urged. Lee, of American Chimney Service, reminds homeowners to have their chimneys inspected and cleaned roughly once a year – or about every 80 burns – to avoid the build-up of creosote, a byproduct of burning wood that could cause a house fire. Even more importantly, he urges them to have their chimney furnaces checked annually. “Some homes don’t have a fireplace,” said Lee, a single dad from Fair Lawn. “But every home has a chimney t…

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by Jerry DeMarco