SASKATOON A woman whose home is believed to be the target of arson says she and her daughter have lost everything. “I’m just glad that we’re alive and we’re healthy,” Farrah Cyr said. Cyr and her seven-year-old daughter were renting the house at 332 Avenue J South for the last two-and-a-half years. She said she discovered there had been a fire when she got home Monday night. Cyr was in Calgary for a week to attend the funeral of a close family member and never expected to find her house boarded up. “My cousin, he was like a brother to me, passed away and I had to deal with that and then come back here and have to deal with this and that was really hard and very upsetting,” she told CTV News.
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Study concerned about carbon monoxide poisoning in Canada
Between 2002 and 2016, Saskatchewan saw the highest increase in carbon monoxide (CO) related hospitalizations per capita at 34.7 per cent, according to a 2017 report about carbon monoxide poisoning published through the University of the Fraser Valley in BC.
The research counted more than 300 CO-related deaths per year across the country as well as over 200 hospitalizations. That was of grave concern for us, said retired fire chief and co-author of the report Len Garis, who is also an adjunct professor in the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of the Fraser Valley.
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Jean Romero (right) and her two children live in the building where 33 people suffered carbon monoxide poisoning Thursday. (Lara Fominoff/650 CKOM)
When Jean Romero’s son began complaining of headaches Thursday, she told him to take a Tylenol.
Then when her daughter, who’s taking university classes online, also told her mom she wasn’t feeling well, Romero asked her to open a window.
She never thought for a second that her children might be suffering from carbon monoxide poisoning.
Romero, her husband and their two children live on the second floor of a Saskatoon apartment building in the Greystone Heights area that was the site of a carbon monoxide leak Thursday night.
SASKATOON Residents of an apartment building in the city s Greystone Heights neighbourhood were evacuated Thursday evening after an emergency room doctor s hunch led to the discovery of potentially lethal levels of carbon monoxide (CO). Around 6 p.m., an emergency room physician reported the potential issue, asking for a check on the building located on Bateman Crescent after observing symptoms in a patient. After firefighters arrived and took readings, high levels of CO were detected, especially in the building s boiler room. When you have a reading such as we had in this building when it s over 400 parts per million (in the boiler room), people can die within two to three hours of exposure, said Saskatoon Fire Department Chief Morgan Hackl during a virtual news conference Friday morning.