BALTIMORE (AP) - Officials says a water heater or a furnace may be to blame for a carbon monoxide leak that sent six residents of a Baltimore home to the hospital.
The patients were transported this morning from the 700 block of North Linwood Avenue. They include a 6-month-old baby and 9-year-old twins.
Family members woke up with headaches. The house had working smoke detectors but did not have a carbon monoxide detector.
The patients were placed in a hyperbaric chamber at the University of Maryland Medical Center.
Fire officials say carbon monoxide levels in the home were at 500 parts per million, or about five times the level that usually requires an immediate evacuation. Residents of two adjacent homes were evacuated as a precaution.
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