‘Tragic yet avoidable’: WSP releases report on Evergreen student’s CO poisoning death

“Alarms on the CO detectors went off during the early-morning hours of Dec. 11, but instead of being treated as a real CO event, investigators said those alarms were treated as a faulty detector and/or a fault of the fire alarm system.”

“…the CO came from a significant leak from a newly installed tankless water heater in the inside the utility room of that unit.”

“…a lack of training and/or understanding of the functions of the fire alarm/CO systems by Evergreen employees and residence maintenance personnel.”