It is very sobering to realize how many people are affected by carbon monoxide every year. These incidents always go up during natural disasters or power outages, like the one affecting so many right now.
As much as we hear about carbon monoxide in the news, we rarely hear how many pets die. Smaller and more vulnerable, they are more likely to be overcome by these invisible fumes. Nebraska leads the country in carbon monoxide deaths and I was saddened to read that firefighters in Omaha reported that 9 dogs had died just last week from carbon monoxide poisoning.
Pets are particularly vulnerable during cold weather when they may be confined to a garage and exposed to car fumes. Dogs and cats are much more sensitive to carbon monoxide fumes than humans and any exposure to exhaust fumes is serious and sometimes fatal. Carbon monoxide poisoning, even in very low doses, is cumulative and can lead to death.
The warning signs of carbon monoxide in your pets include: drowsiness, lethargy, weakness and/or incoordination, bright red color to skin and gums, dyspnea (trouble breathing), coma, abrupt death and occasionally chronic (low-grade, long-term) exposure may cause exercise intolerance, changes in gait (walking), and disturbances of normal reflexes. If you suspect carbon monoxide poisoning in your pet, remember, this is a warning sign that you and your family are at risk. Pets and small children are always the first affected.
If you care about your pets, install carbon monoxide detectors. They are an inexpensive way to protect you, your family and your pets. Don’t let your pet be the warning sign that you have carbon monoxide in your home.
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Power’s return could take weeks in Ky., Ark.
Date: 1/29/2009
By KRISTIN M. HALL
Associated Press Writer
PADUCAH, Ky. (AP) — Storm-battered residents of several states hunkered down in frigid homes and shelters Thursday, expecting to spend at least a week without power and waiting in long lines to buy generators, firewood, groceries and bottled water.
Utility companies in Missouri, Kentucky, Ohio, Arkansas and West Virginia warned that the estimated 1.3 million people left in the dark by an ice storm wouldn’t have power back before Saturday at the earliest, and at worst, as late as mid-February.
Already, the situation was becoming dire for some communities in Kentucky, where the power outages crippled pumping stations and cut off access to water. Tracie and Jeff Augustinovich drove 15 miles from their home in the western Kentucky town of Rock Castle to buy groceries. Their home had very little running water, and though they stocked up before the storm, they weren’t sure their supplies will last.
“We’re buying up anything that we can eat cold,” Tracie Augustinovich said.
In Paducah, Amber Fiers and her neighbor Miranda Brittan tried a half-dozen filling stations before finding one where they could buy kerosene. The two were in a line that swelled to 50 or more at the 13th Street Station, which began pumping kerosene after its owner set up a generator.
“We got food, but I’m just worried about staying warm,” said, Brittan who lives in Mayfield, adding she was frustrated by the search for supplies.
“By the time you hear about a place that’s open they’re out when you get there,” she said.
Utility crews found themselves up against roads blocked by ice-caked power lines, downed trees and other debris. Help from around the country was arriving in convoys to assist the states with the worst outages. But with so many homes and businesses in the dark — there were more than 600,000 across Kentucky alone — the effort is still expected to take days, if not weeks.
At a mall turned into a staging area in Barboursville, W.Va., crews in hard hats met alongside piles of poles, generators, wire and other supplies to find out where to go first.
“We’re attacking it head on,” said Appalachian Power spokesman Phil Moye. “As long as the ice is still on the trees, the storm is still here.”
St. Louis-based AmerenUE said it had added 800 workers to its efforts to restore power in southeast Missouri, and another 800 were expected Friday.
“As we restore some, we’re losing others. The ice is just so treacherous,” said utility spokeswoman Susan Gallagher.
Federal officials are hauling truckloads of water, ready-to-eat meals and large generators to a staging area at Fort Campbell in southwestern Kentucky, said Mary Hudak, a spokeswoman for FEMA’s southeast region. The supplies are expected to arrive Friday.
Hundreds of shelters opened their doors, and deputies in some communities went door to door to let people know where they were. Since phone service and Internet connections are spotty in many places, there wasn’t another way. In Harrodsburg, Ky., where phone service was restored, residents were asked to call 911 if they needed transport to shelters, said John Trisler, the county’s judge executive.
In Caruthersville, Mo., near the Tennessee border, church leaders and other volunteers knocked on the doors of the elderly and handicapped residents to make sure they were all right. A generator was in use to distribute some water in town, but Fire Chief Charlie Jones had concerns about what would happen when the temporary measure ran out.
“We’re definitely worried about the community with no power, no water. Restaurants aren’t open and there are no (open) fueling stations,” he said.
In central Kentucky’s Radcliff, John and Elsie Grimes lost power Monday night and needed police help to get out of their trailer and to a shelter Thursday morning set up by the local NAACP.
“I’ve been sitting ’round for two days, eating cold hot dogs and bologna,” said 70-year-old John Grimes, who uses a wheelchair, is blind in one eye, and a diabetic.
Since the storm began Monday, the weather has been blamed for at least 26 deaths, including six in Texas, four in Arkansas, three in Virginia, six in Missouri, two in Oklahoma, two in Indiana, two in West Virginia and one in Ohio. Emergency officials feared that toll could rise if people stay in their homes without power for too long, because improper use of generators can cause carbon monoxide poisoning.
Some decided to tough it out anyway. As icicles began to melt from the electrical wires and crashed to the ground Thursday, Jimmy Eason of Velvet Ridge, Ark., carefully walked across his yard to his Ford F-150, which was warmer than his one-story, white house.
“I’m sleeping in a car, which is just fine,” Eason, 74, said. “There’s nothing wrong with a car. Every couple of hours I turn it on, I let it run for 10 minutes and that keeps it pretty warm.”
Eason was trying to avoid boredom, and drove to Burger King to get a meal because he was tired of eating cold soup. “It’s kind of a chore to occupy your mind. I’m used to doing things and keeping busy. You just have to endure a couple of days and it will be all right,” he said.
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Contributing to this report were Associated Press Writers Dylan T. Lovan, Brett Barrouquere and Bruce Schreiner in Louisville, Ky.; Daniel Shea in Velvet Ridge, Ark.; John Raby in Charleston, W.Va.; and Betsy Taylor in St. Louis, Mo.
Copyright 2009 The Associated Press.
By KRISTIN M. HALL
Associated Press Writer
PADUCAH, Ky. (AP) — Storm-battered residents of several states hunkered down in frigid homes and shelters Thursday, expecting to spend at least a week without power and waiting in long lines to buy generators, firewood, groceries and bottled water.
Utility companies in Missouri, Kentucky, Ohio, Arkansas and West Virginia warned that the estimated 1.3 million people left in the dark by an ice storm wouldn’t have power back before Saturday at the earliest, and at worst, as late as mid-February.
Already, the situation was becoming dire for some communities in Kentucky, where the power outages crippled pumping stations and cut off access to water. Tracie and Jeff Augustinovich drove 15 miles from their home in the western Kentucky town of Rock Castle to buy groceries. Their home had very little running water, and though they stocked up before the storm, they weren’t sure their supplies will last.
“We’re buying up anything that we can eat cold,” Tracie Augustinovich said.
In Paducah, Amber Fiers and her neighbor Miranda Brittan tried a half-dozen filling stations before finding one where they could buy kerosene. The two were in a line that swelled to 50 or more at the 13th Street Station, which began pumping kerosene after its owner set up a generator.
“We got food, but I’m just worried about staying warm,” said, Brittan who lives in Mayfield, adding she was frustrated by the search for supplies.
“By the time you hear about a place that’s open they’re out when you get there,” she said.
Utility crews found themselves up against roads blocked by ice-caked power lines, downed trees and other debris. Help from around the country was arriving in convoys to assist the states with the worst outages. But with so many homes and businesses in the dark — there were more than 600,000 across Kentucky alone — the effort is still expected to take days, if not weeks.
At a mall turned into a staging area in Barboursville, W.Va., crews in hard hats met alongside piles of poles, generators, wire and other supplies to find out where to go first.
“We’re attacking it head on,” said Appalachian Power spokesman Phil Moye. “As long as the ice is still on the trees, the storm is still here.”
St. Louis-based AmerenUE said it had added 800 workers to its efforts to restore power in southeast Missouri, and another 800 were expected Friday.
“As we restore some, we’re losing others. The ice is just so treacherous,” said utility spokeswoman Susan Gallagher.
Federal officials are hauling truckloads of water, ready-to-eat meals and large generators to a staging area at Fort Campbell in southwestern Kentucky, said Mary Hudak, a spokeswoman for FEMA’s southeast region. The supplies are expected to arrive Friday.
Hundreds of shelters opened their doors, and deputies in some communities went door to door to let people know where they were. Since phone service and Internet connections are spotty in many places, there wasn’t another way. In Harrodsburg, Ky., where phone service was restored, residents were asked to call 911 if they needed transport to shelters, said John Trisler, the county’s judge executive.
In Caruthersville, Mo., near the Tennessee border, church leaders and other volunteers knocked on the doors of the elderly and handicapped residents to make sure they were all right. A generator was in use to distribute some water in town, but Fire Chief Charlie Jones had concerns about what would happen when the temporary measure ran out.
“We’re definitely worried about the community with no power, no water. Restaurants aren’t open and there are no (open) fueling stations,” he said.
In central Kentucky’s Radcliff, John and Elsie Grimes lost power Monday night and needed police help to get out of their trailer and to a shelter Thursday morning set up by the local NAACP.
“I’ve been sitting ’round for two days, eating cold hot dogs and bologna,” said 70-year-old John Grimes, who uses a wheelchair, is blind in one eye, and a diabetic.
Since the storm began Monday, the weather has been blamed for at least 26 deaths, including six in Texas, four in Arkansas, three in Virginia, six in Missouri, two in Oklahoma, two in Indiana, two in West Virginia and one in Ohio. Emergency officials feared that toll could rise if people stay in their homes without power for too long, because improper use of generators can cause carbon monoxide poisoning.
Some decided to tough it out anyway. As icicles began to melt from the electrical wires and crashed to the ground Thursday, Jimmy Eason of Velvet Ridge, Ark., carefully walked across his yard to his Ford F-150, which was warmer than his one-story, white house.
“I’m sleeping in a car, which is just fine,” Eason, 74, said. “There’s nothing wrong with a car. Every couple of hours I turn it on, I let it run for 10 minutes and that keeps it pretty warm.”
Eason was trying to avoid boredom, and drove to Burger King to get a meal because he was tired of eating cold soup. “It’s kind of a chore to occupy your mind. I’m used to doing things and keeping busy. You just have to endure a couple of days and it will be all right,” he said.
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Contributing to this report were Associated Press Writers Dylan T. Lovan, Brett Barrouquere and Bruce Schreiner in Louisville, Ky.; Daniel Shea in Velvet Ridge, Ark.; John Raby in Charleston, W.Va.; and Betsy Taylor in St. Louis, Mo.
Copyright 2009 The Associated Press.
Trial begins for man accused in deadly Calif. fire
Date: 1/23/2009
By GREG RISLING
Associated Press Writer
RIVERSIDE, Calif. (AP) — A prosecutor said Thursday that an auto mechanic was “a man bent on destruction” who ignited a wildfire that killed five U.S. Forest Service firefighters in 2006.
In opening statements for Raymond Lee Oyler’s murder trial, Riverside County Deputy District Attorney Michael Hestrin told jurors that Oyler was a serial arsonist who set 25 blazes, including the Esperanza fire, and sometimes as many as three a day during 2006.
Hestrin said Oyler was “a man bent on destruction … a man wanting to be so important, he unleashed disaster on five men.”
Oyler, 38, has pleaded not guilty to 45 counts including murder and arson. He claimed he had been watching his 7-month-old child at home and then went to a casino when the Esperanza fire began on Oct. 26, 2006, as fierce Santa Ana winds roared through Southern California.
If convicted, he faces the death penalty.
The firefighters were overrun by a fierce fire as they defended a home in Twin Pines, a remote and rugged area about 90 miles east of Los Angeles. The fire destroyed 34 homes and 20 outbuildings, and charred more than 67 square miles.
Prosecutors said at most of the sites where fires were set, authorities found wooden matches bundled around or laid over a cigarette. The lit cigarette was a “timing device,” allowing an average of 10 minutes before the matches would be sparked, Hestrin said.
He added Oyler also was tied to two fires through DNA evidence found where the blazes started.
Hestrin said that during one of the fires Oyler is suspected of starting, a camera recorded the defendant’s car coming into and leaving the area. Investigators searching the vehicle found a wig, clothing and a slingshot that appeared to have burn marks on it, Hestrin said.
Fire officials had set up hidden cameras at several sites where they believed fires might erupt.
Defense attorney Mark McDonald said in his opening statements that the prosecution had neither DNA evidence nor witnesses to connect Oyler to the Esperanza fire.
“You will only hear theories,” McDonald said. “This may be just hopefulness that someone will be held accountable for Esperanza.”
The attorney said he would call an arson expert to testify that more than one person was likely responsible for setting the fires because different types of incendiary devices were used.
“They are not in compliance … with someone we would call a serial arsonist,” McDonald told jurors.
McDonald has been fighting to admit into evidence that a Forest Service investigation found another possible arsonist — a firefighter who worked in the area when the suspicious fires started.
Firefighters Jason McKay, 27; Jess McLean, 27; Daniel Hoover-Najera, 20; Mark Loutzenhiser, 43; and Pablo Cerda, 23, died in the fire.
The trial court was scheduled to hold a motions hearing Friday, and testimony was expected to resume Monday.
Copyright 2009 The Associated Press.
By GREG RISLING
Associated Press Writer
RIVERSIDE, Calif. (AP) — A prosecutor said Thursday that an auto mechanic was “a man bent on destruction” who ignited a wildfire that killed five U.S. Forest Service firefighters in 2006.
In opening statements for Raymond Lee Oyler’s murder trial, Riverside County Deputy District Attorney Michael Hestrin told jurors that Oyler was a serial arsonist who set 25 blazes, including the Esperanza fire, and sometimes as many as three a day during 2006.
Hestrin said Oyler was “a man bent on destruction … a man wanting to be so important, he unleashed disaster on five men.”
Oyler, 38, has pleaded not guilty to 45 counts including murder and arson. He claimed he had been watching his 7-month-old child at home and then went to a casino when the Esperanza fire began on Oct. 26, 2006, as fierce Santa Ana winds roared through Southern California.
If convicted, he faces the death penalty.
The firefighters were overrun by a fierce fire as they defended a home in Twin Pines, a remote and rugged area about 90 miles east of Los Angeles. The fire destroyed 34 homes and 20 outbuildings, and charred more than 67 square miles.
Prosecutors said at most of the sites where fires were set, authorities found wooden matches bundled around or laid over a cigarette. The lit cigarette was a “timing device,” allowing an average of 10 minutes before the matches would be sparked, Hestrin said.
He added Oyler also was tied to two fires through DNA evidence found where the blazes started.
Hestrin said that during one of the fires Oyler is suspected of starting, a camera recorded the defendant’s car coming into and leaving the area. Investigators searching the vehicle found a wig, clothing and a slingshot that appeared to have burn marks on it, Hestrin said.
Fire officials had set up hidden cameras at several sites where they believed fires might erupt.
Defense attorney Mark McDonald said in his opening statements that the prosecution had neither DNA evidence nor witnesses to connect Oyler to the Esperanza fire.
“You will only hear theories,” McDonald said. “This may be just hopefulness that someone will be held accountable for Esperanza.”
The attorney said he would call an arson expert to testify that more than one person was likely responsible for setting the fires because different types of incendiary devices were used.
“They are not in compliance … with someone we would call a serial arsonist,” McDonald told jurors.
McDonald has been fighting to admit into evidence that a Forest Service investigation found another possible arsonist — a firefighter who worked in the area when the suspicious fires started.
Firefighters Jason McKay, 27; Jess McLean, 27; Daniel Hoover-Najera, 20; Mark Loutzenhiser, 43; and Pablo Cerda, 23, died in the fire.
The trial court was scheduled to hold a motions hearing Friday, and testimony was expected to resume Monday.
Copyright 2009 The Associated Press.
Mass. woman charged in fatal ’99 fire faces trial
Date: 1/12/2009
By DENISE LAVOIE
Associated Press Writer
BOSTON (AP) — For nearly a decade, Kathleen Hilton has been in jail, though she’s been convicted of nothing.
Prosecutors say the grandmother set a fire that killed five people, including three young girls, because she was allegedly angry her son’s ex-girlfriend wouldn’t let him see his two kids.
Her trial is set to begin Tuesday on murder and arson charges after an extraordinary delay while her lawyer fought to keep the jury from hearing an alleged confession she made after the Feb. 24, 1999, blaze in a Lynn triple-decker.
Her grandchildren survived, but the blaze killed another family in the building.
Hilton, now 62, has spent most of the last decade at MCI-Framingham, a medium-security women’s prison where she works in the kitchen and watches television, said her attorney, Michael Natola.
In Massachusetts, it usually takes one to two years for murder cases to go to trial.
“Ten years is aberrational,” said Michael Cassidy, a professor at Boston College Law School. “Sometimes, complex murder cases can take two or three years to get to trial but 10 years is well beyond the average.”
Natola said he had to push for the statements to be suppressed — no matter how long it took. The case twice went to the Supreme Judicial Court.
“There were two competing constitutional rights at work here — her right to a speedy trial and her right to a fair trial by virtue of having unlawfully taken statements suppressed,” he said.
Ultimately, the jury at Hilton’s trial will be allowed to hear portions of her statements to police, including her claim she started the fire by pouring scented oil on the wooden stairway and lighting it with a cigarette. She allegedly said she hoped that if her son’s girlfriend, Krystina Sutherland, had nowhere to live, she and the two children would return to her son, Charles Loayza, then 22.
But jurors won’t be allowed to hear a statement she allegedly made to a court officer after her arraignment: “My son, I hope he forgives me. I could have killed my grandchildren.”
Natola claims Hilton made the statements to try to protect her son, who had threatened to burn down the house and was initially the prime suspect in the fire. Police later verified her son’s alibi for the night of the fire.
“She was trying to cover up for her son,” he said.
Natola said Hilton had a close relationship with her grandchildren.
“It makes absolutely no sense that a person who was almost obsessively concerned with her grandkids would go ahead and set the house on fire where they lived,” he said.
Sutherland and the two children escaped their second-floor apartment. The first-floor occupants also got out safely. But the five people who lived on the third floor all died of smoke inhalation.
Killed were: Heriberto Feliciano, 34; his wife, Sonia Hernandez, 32; their daughters, Sonia, 12, and Maria, 13; and their niece, Glorimar Santiago, 11. The couple had moved to the mainland United States from their native Puerto Rico about 12 years earlier. Attempts to reach relatives in Puerto Rico were unsuccessful.
Sutherland, who is now married and lives in Lynn, is expected to be a key witness for prosecutors. She did not return a call seeking comment. It is unclear whether Loayza will be called to testify. Natola said Hilton has not seen him in years and does not know where he is.
Natola said he will also argue that Hilton made the statements involuntarily. Shortly after her arrest, she was found incompetent to stand trial after she said her cell was “haunted” and she saw “spirits.” But later, psychiatrists deemed her competent, meaning she could understand the charges against her and assist her attorney with her defense.
Cassidy, the law professor, said the passage of a decade could hurt the prosecution’s case.
“The longer the time passes between the event and the trial, the more likely witnesses can get sick, die, move, come to court but have failed memories, get into trouble themselves … that’s where it’s a real risk for the government to wait this long.”
Essex District Attorney Jonathan Blodgett said the delay was unavoidable.
“We would have liked to have tried the case sooner, but we respect the process and the defendant’s rights,” he said.
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By DENISE LAVOIE
Associated Press Writer
BOSTON (AP) — For nearly a decade, Kathleen Hilton has been in jail, though she’s been convicted of nothing.
Prosecutors say the grandmother set a fire that killed five people, including three young girls, because she was allegedly angry her son’s ex-girlfriend wouldn’t let him see his two kids.
Her trial is set to begin Tuesday on murder and arson charges after an extraordinary delay while her lawyer fought to keep the jury from hearing an alleged confession she made after the Feb. 24, 1999, blaze in a Lynn triple-decker.
Her grandchildren survived, but the blaze killed another family in the building.
Hilton, now 62, has spent most of the last decade at MCI-Framingham, a medium-security women’s prison where she works in the kitchen and watches television, said her attorney, Michael Natola.
In Massachusetts, it usually takes one to two years for murder cases to go to trial.
“Ten years is aberrational,” said Michael Cassidy, a professor at Boston College Law School. “Sometimes, complex murder cases can take two or three years to get to trial but 10 years is well beyond the average.”
Natola said he had to push for the statements to be suppressed — no matter how long it took. The case twice went to the Supreme Judicial Court.
“There were two competing constitutional rights at work here — her right to a speedy trial and her right to a fair trial by virtue of having unlawfully taken statements suppressed,” he said.
Ultimately, the jury at Hilton’s trial will be allowed to hear portions of her statements to police, including her claim she started the fire by pouring scented oil on the wooden stairway and lighting it with a cigarette. She allegedly said she hoped that if her son’s girlfriend, Krystina Sutherland, had nowhere to live, she and the two children would return to her son, Charles Loayza, then 22.
But jurors won’t be allowed to hear a statement she allegedly made to a court officer after her arraignment: “My son, I hope he forgives me. I could have killed my grandchildren.”
Natola claims Hilton made the statements to try to protect her son, who had threatened to burn down the house and was initially the prime suspect in the fire. Police later verified her son’s alibi for the night of the fire.
“She was trying to cover up for her son,” he said.
Natola said Hilton had a close relationship with her grandchildren.
“It makes absolutely no sense that a person who was almost obsessively concerned with her grandkids would go ahead and set the house on fire where they lived,” he said.
Sutherland and the two children escaped their second-floor apartment. The first-floor occupants also got out safely. But the five people who lived on the third floor all died of smoke inhalation.
Killed were: Heriberto Feliciano, 34; his wife, Sonia Hernandez, 32; their daughters, Sonia, 12, and Maria, 13; and their niece, Glorimar Santiago, 11. The couple had moved to the mainland United States from their native Puerto Rico about 12 years earlier. Attempts to reach relatives in Puerto Rico were unsuccessful.
Sutherland, who is now married and lives in Lynn, is expected to be a key witness for prosecutors. She did not return a call seeking comment. It is unclear whether Loayza will be called to testify. Natola said Hilton has not seen him in years and does not know where he is.
Natola said he will also argue that Hilton made the statements involuntarily. Shortly after her arrest, she was found incompetent to stand trial after she said her cell was “haunted” and she saw “spirits.” But later, psychiatrists deemed her competent, meaning she could understand the charges against her and assist her attorney with her defense.
Cassidy, the law professor, said the passage of a decade could hurt the prosecution’s case.
“The longer the time passes between the event and the trial, the more likely witnesses can get sick, die, move, come to court but have failed memories, get into trouble themselves … that’s where it’s a real risk for the government to wait this long.”
Essex District Attorney Jonathan Blodgett said the delay was unavoidable.
“We would have liked to have tried the case sooner, but we respect the process and the defendant’s rights,” he said.
Copyright 2009 The Associated Press.
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Wash. woman dies; carbon monoxide found
January 6, 2009
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
DENVER — Investigators say a boiler vent damaged during a recent windstorm may have led to the high levels of carbon monoxide that left one college student dead.
Denver’s Chief Deputy Coroner Michelle Weiss-Samaras says 23-year-old Lauren Johnson died Monday after being taken from a third-floor unit at Josephine Place Apartments. Johnson and another woman were hospitalized.
University of Denver spokesman Jim Berscheidt says Johnson was a first-year graduate student at the school’s international-studies program. He says she was from Vancouver, Wash.
Authorities say a woman had called 911 shortly before 5 p.m. Monday saying she felt woozy.
Denver fire spokesman Lt. Phil Champagne says investigators found that carbon monoxide had leaked from a flue from the boiler. Champagne says whoever fixed the old flue vent cap did not attach it properly.
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DENVER — Investigators say a boiler vent damaged during a recent windstorm may have led to the high levels of carbon monoxide that left one college student dead.
Denver’s Chief Deputy Coroner Michelle Weiss-Samaras says 23-year-old Lauren Johnson died Monday after being taken from a third-floor unit at Josephine Place Apartments. Johnson and another woman were hospitalized.
University of Denver spokesman Jim Berscheidt says Johnson was a first-year graduate student at the school’s international-studies program. He says she was from Vancouver, Wash.
Authorities say a woman had called 911 shortly before 5 p.m. Monday saying she felt woozy.
Denver fire spokesman Lt. Phil Champagne says investigators found that carbon monoxide had leaked from a flue from the boiler. Champagne says whoever fixed the old flue vent cap did not attach it properly.
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