• 20 adults and a 9-year-old boy became ill after inhaling carbon monoxide in an Ocean Shores grocery store powered by a generator
  • four members of a Vietnamese family were found dead in their Burien home. A generator had been running in their garage
  • three children died in a rural home in Grant County where a gasoline generator was running
  • Immigrant populations were the hardest hit: Of the 70 people treated in Virginia Mason s hyperbaric chamber, only five spoke English as their first language

Carbon Monoxide: Last Year’s Surprise Killer Still Claims Lives