Seven people, including two firefighters, were taken to Swedish Medical Center after high carbon monoxide levels at a Cherry Hills Village home made them sick, officials say.
South Metro Fire Rescue was called to 52 Cherry Hills Farm Drive, a home purchased for $2.3 million in June, to investigate a strange odor at 8:37 a.m., Fire Chief Mike Dell’Orfano said.
A car had been left running in the 1,200-square-foot garage, said Andy Lyon, spokesman for the fire department.
South Metro’s hazardous materials investigators detected carbon monoxide levels of between 200 to 1,500 parts per million, Lyon said.
“It’s way high,” he said. “Obviously if the firefighters were just walking around and got sick, it’s pretty high.”
The condition of the five people who were at the home is not known, Lyon said. The two firefighters were treated and released, he said.
The case was turned over to the Cherry Hills Police Department, Lyon said.
The home is owned by Kagan Textiles, founded in England in 1951 by Joseph Kagan, a holocaust survivor who invented Gannex, a material used to make raincoats, according to Wikkipedia. The raincoats were worn by Lyndon Johnson, Nikita Khrushchev and Queen Elizabeth according to the online encyclopedia.
Lyon did not release the names of the residents taken to the hospital.
Lyon said carbon monoxide fumes are odorless and can be deadly.
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