Nine people were taken to a local hospital this morning following exposure to carbon monoxide that led to the evacuation of a West Seneca hotel.
Serafini called for more police and fire personnel, who found high levels of carbon monoxide in the lower levels of the five-story hotel. Authorities said they believe the carbon monoxide may have settled on the lower floors of the building.
Three other guests of the Hampton Inn on Ridge Road reported ill effects from their exposure to carbon monoxide. West Seneca police responded to a call at about 5:30 a.m. today, when the hotel’s front-desk manager told Officer Anthony Serafini that two people on the second floor were requesting a new room. They felt dizzy and faint and told hotel workers they thought fumes in their room were responsible. 70 guests staying there overnight.
National Fuel crews also responded and found the carbon monoxide coming from a heating unit on the hotel’s roof, police said. “I do not believe any of the injuries are going to be life-threatening,” West Seneca Police Lt. David L. Szmania said late this morning of the nine people taken to Millard Fillmore Gates Hospital.
After the problem was corrected, hotel workers ventilated the building, waited for about two hours and then allowed guests to return to their rooms by about 10 a.m., Szmania said.
The lieutenant praised the police midnight shift along with volunteer firefighters from the Seneca Hose, Winchester and Reserve Hose companies. “It could have definitely been worse,” Szmania said, referring to the January 2009 death of 16-year-old West Seneca resident Amanda Hansen from carbon-monoxide poisoning while she was sleeping over at a friend’s house.
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G’day – this an occurrence that happens all over. Its when people try and stay warm and it is easy to inhale as it has not got a pungent smell and before you know it you are in trouble. – Look at thoese 5 poor lads down in Florida that were celebrating the one’s 19th Birthday at a Motel and they were located near a warming device and the result – 5 x Fatalities.
Gas needs to be impregnated with a pungent smell that a person will immediatly react when smealt. Dont forget that gas is heaver than air so when smealt the level is already at the height of your nose.
Carbon Monoxide from a pipe into a motor vehicle is also one of the more used form for person committing suicide.
G’day – this an occurrence that happens all over. Its when people try and stay warm and it is easy to inhale as it has not got a pungent smell and before you know it you are in trouble. – Look at thoese 5 poor lads down in Florida that were celebrating the one’s 19th Birthday at a Motel and they were located near a warming device and the result – 5 x Fatalities.
Gas needs to be impregnated with a pungent smell that a person will immediatly react when smealt. Dont forget that gas is heaver than air so when smealt the level is already at the height of your nose.
Carbon Monoxide from a pipe into a motor vehicle is also one of the more used form for person committing suicide.