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Stafford hotel guests hospitalized after carbon monoxide leak Hotel guests taken to hospital after carbon monoxide leak. Date published: 7/27/2006
Seven Stafford County hotel guests were taken to Mary Washington Hospital this morning as the result of a carbon monoxide leak, Cathy Riddle, a county spokesperson, said.
Four of those transported had potentially serious injuries, while the other three sustained what Riddle described as less serious injuries. Fire and rescue personnel responded to the Wingate Inn at 20 Sanford Drive around 9:30 a.m. after a caller reported a gas leak inside the hotel. Responders first searched all four floors of the hotel to ensure that the 118 people inside were safely evacuated, Riddle said. At the time of the call, 80 people inside were attending a conference, 18 were hotel workers and 20 were hotel guests. Members of the county's Hazmat team then discovered the leak in the boiler room on the first floor. Once they shut the boilers down the carbon monoxide levels began to decrease. They are now ventilating the hotel and hope to reopen it later today. As of noon, crews were still working to clear out the carbon monoxide. The county brought in two air-conditioned school buses for those evacuated to wait in, Riddle said. -Brian Baer, fredericksburg.com
Is there not a law that says that all commercial buildings using natural gas must use carbon monoxide detectors? If there isn't, there should be. We use one at my place of work. It is a relatively inexpensive way to potentially save many lives. To me, it is also just common sense.
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