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CBS Mornings Family fights for carbon monoxide safety after personal tragedy: “Tremendous hole in our heart”
“In 2023, John Heathco and his girlfriend, Abby, were supposed to be enjoying a long weekend by the beach in Mexico, but within hours of getting to their hotel, they felt like something was off.
‘They had a couple tacos and some guacamole by the pool, went back to the room and started feeling awful,’ said Chuck Heathco, father of John.
They thought it was food poisoning, but John Heathco’s family said the couple’s hotel room had been filled with a silent killer: carbon monoxide….The Heathco family is speaking for the first time as they launch the John Wesley Heathco Legacy Foundation, an effort to legally require hotels to have working carbon monoxide detectors in each room. Currently, only 14 states mandate it, including: California, Florida, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, Tennessee, Vermont, West Virginia and Wisconsin.”
