Carbon Monoxide Fumes Poison Four in Chicago
Oct. 18--Carbon monoxide fumes sent four people in a Highwood building that houses a dentist's office and an apartment to hospitals Monday afternoon, officials said.
About 12:30 p.m., a 911 caller reported that someone in the office of dentist Arcady Trogub, on the first floor at 410 Green Bay Road, was experiencing chest pains, said Ron Pieri, Highwood deputy fire chief.
A short time later, a couple in the building's second-floor apartment also called 911, complaining of strokelike symptoms, Pieri said.
Firefighters found Trogub and another person on a couch in the dentist office's waiting room, Pieri said.
One was semiconscious, and the other was conscious, he said.
When firefighters tested the first and second floors, they found "extremely high levels" of carbon monoxide that could be lethal, Pieri said.
The four were taken to Advocate Lutheran General Hospital in Park Ridge, Highland Park Hospital and Northwestern Lake Forest Hospital, the deputy chief said.
The source of the carbon monoxide remained unknown Monday afternoon, he said.
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