In such a public place, this is really scary!
A carbon monoxide leak at a mall on Long Island killed one person Saturday night and sickened more than two dozen, according to the local authorities.
Police officers, fire crews and medics responded to an emergency call around 6 p.m. for a woman who had hit her head and fallen in the basement of Legal Sea Foods at the Walt Whitman Shops in Huntington Station, the Suffolk County Police said. Soon after arriving, ambulance personnel began feeling nauseous and dizzy and recognized it as carbon monoxide poisoning, Commissioner Edward Webber said.
The woman and a man, who were both restaurant employees, were found in the basement overcome by the gas, said Andrea Golinsky, a spokeswoman for the Huntington Community First Aid Squad. They were taken in critical condition to Huntington Hospital, where the man was pronounced dead on arrival, police said.
They call carbon monoxide the “Silent Killer”, at least guns make noise, even with a suppressor!
Be safe out there!
I thought the “silent killer” was JayG after Taco Bell night?
Saw a special recently on the broadcast series of tubes about this mass gass death: http://www.cnn.com/2013/06/11/us/north-carolina-hotel-deaths/index.html