The Kansas City area has seen multiple fires throughout the body-numbing January cold snap. The Kansas City, Missouri Fire Department said its crews responded to 26 fires in the last 16 days.
Bernardo Valladares, 57; Carlos Carazo, 33; and Milton Gutierrez, 28, died inside a house off Fuller Avenue last Saturday after running a generator inside.
Kansas City Fire Chief Michael Hopkins says the fire crew found three men dead and a fourth in need of hospitalization. He says the firefighters detected high levels of carbon monoxide at the home.
The Kansas City, Missouri, Fire Department located three deceased men and one man in critical condition while responding to a report of carbon monoxide Saturday morning in Kansas City, Missouri.