February 24, 2021
On Sunday, February 21, at approximately 12:09 a.m., units from Prince George’s County Fire/EMS Department and Montgomery County Fire & Rescue Service were dispatched to a house in the 2700 block of Hughes Road in a residential area of Adelphi for a report of multiple unconscious people.
Upon arrival, crews located two buildings which were attached to the rear of the house and determined the actual physical address of the incident was the 3000 block of Buck Lodge Road. Inside one of the rear buildings, where a church worship service was being held, crews located 25 to 30 people several of whom were presenting with symptoms of carbon monoxide poisoning (vomiting, headache, dizziness). All of the occupants were conscious.