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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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