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Dozens Sickened, Long Island Apartment Building Evacuated Due To Spiked Carbon Monoxide Levels Dozens Sickened, Long Island Apartment Building Evacuated Due To Spiked Carbon Monoxide Levels
Dozens Sickened, Long Island Apartment Building Evacuated Due To Spiked Carbon Monoxide Levels Some 100 residents of a Long Island apartment building were evacuated after high levels of carbon monoxide was discovered leaking from illegally installed heaters. The incident took place around 7 a.m., Wednesday, Jan. 22, at the four-story apartment building located at 545 Fulton Ave., when 28 people began feeling ill, said a Village of Hempstead fire official during a press conference. Nine of the people, including a mother and her toddler who were found passed out in a room, were rushed to an area hospital with high levels of carbon monoxide in their blood, officials said. Hempstead fir…

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