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HEBER CITY -- A Heber City family has a warning for all Utahns concerning carbon monoxide. Firefighters discovered fatal levels of the deadly gas inside their home just after Thanksgiving.
The family says their trouble started Thanksgiving night when they lit a fire. The next day, their newly-installed ADT alarm system, which has a carbon monoxide detector, sounded in the middle of the day.
"I thought there's no way. The doors are open; there's nothing wrong. Maybe their system is too sensitive,'" recalls homeowner Joneil Nye.
Despite the reassurance, the operator called the Wasatch County Fire District, which discovered fatal levels of CO in the home. They were the highest in Joneil's 3-year-old daughter's bedroom.
"It could have well killed all of us," Joneil says. "It was pretty scary."
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, more than 400 people die per year in the United States of CO poisoning.
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