PATCHOGUE, Long Island (WABC) -- At least 150 people were forced to flee when a malfunctioning boiler filled their Long Island apartment building with potentially deadly carbon monoxide.
Patchogue firefighters first went to the Mapletree Apartments for a call about smoky food on a stove.
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But as they were wrapping up that problem, the building's carbon monoxide detectors all went off.
The building was evacuated.
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The Red Cross helped make arrangements for residents while National Grid worked on the problem.
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