8 hospitalized after carbon monoxide leak poisons dozen at Gravesend, Brooklyn home
GRAVESEND, Brooklyn -- Firefighters rescued a dozen people from a Gravesend, Brooklyn home with high levels of carbon monoxide.
Residents inside of a home on West 6th Street began feeling sick around 11 p.m. Sunday.
Firefighters responded to a report of an unconscious person and found 12 people with carbon monoxide exposure symptoms.
Initial readings detected carbon monoxide readings of 300 parts per million.
Carbon monoxide concentrations above 50% are considered lethal.
The CDC calls carbon monoxide the "odorless, colorless gas that kills without warning." Many household items, including furnaces, gas stoves, engines, charcoal grills produce carbon monoxide.
Carbon monoxide detectors can help alert residents of the deadly gas.
Firefighters were able to air out the home and lower the carbon monoxide levels, but eight residents were taken to the hospital for treatment in a hyperbaric chamber.
Four others were treated on the scene.
The investigation is still ongoing to determine the source of the leak.
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