5 people treated for carbon monoxide poisoning after Dartmouth incident

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· Posted: Apr 13, 2025 8:57 AM EDT | Last Updated: 4 minutes ago

Residents were evacuated from an flat gathering successful Dartmouth, N.S., aboriginal Sunday greeting owed to precocious levels of c monoxide, with a full of 5 radical treated astatine hospital.

Halifax Regional Fire and Emergency territory Chief Stephen Turner said occurrence crews received a telephone astatine 1:08 a.m. AT from aesculapian unit astatine the Dartmouth General Hospital.

He said determination was a diligent determination with precocious levels of c monoxide, which prompted the unit to notify the occurrence section astir imaginable c monoxide exposure.

Turner said occurrence crews went to the Albro Lake Road flat building, which was recovered to have high levels of c monoxide. Residents were evacuated from the building — it's unclear however many — but 4 radical were taken to infirmary for treatment, said Turner.

He said the gathering was ventilated and radical were allowed to instrumentality to their units.

In a Facebook post, the Halifax Professional Fire Fighters association said it's an 18-unit building.

Turner said c monoxide is an odorless gas.

"We urge that everybody person a c monoxide detector successful immoderate gathering that has imaginable to person a c monoxide exposure, truthful that you tin guarantee that you are warned successful advance," helium said.

Carbon monoxide informing signs

In its post, the firefighters' association recommended that radical with gas-burning appliances, specified arsenic furnaces, propane fireplaces oregon barbecues, instal c monoxide detectors connected each level of a home.

"Know the symptoms: headache, dizziness, nausea, and confusion," it said.