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Homes Cleared Out by Carbon Monoxide Scare in Extreme Cold

HAZLETON — Firefighters were called out Friday afternoon when higher levels of carbon monoxide were detected in some row homes on West Diamond Avenue in H...

HAZLETON -- Firefighters were called out Friday afternoon when higher levels of carbon monoxide were detected in some row homes on West Diamond Avenue in Hazleton as people deal with extreme cold weather.

All kinds of furnace problems are being reported around our area as folks deal with this extreme cold.

With temperatures well below freezing, it's not the kind of weather where you want to be standing outside. But that's what happened on West Diamond Avenue in Hazleton when firefighters showed up.

"We got banging on the door, said, you know, get dressed and get out there because of the carbon monoxide," said Josephine Cammarano.

Firefighters say a problem with a furnace spread smoke and fumes into more than a half dozen homes.

"I didn't know that it would seep all the way through, but it does."

Almost all the residents in these row homes were allowed back into their apartment after standing outside in temperatures that hovered just above zero for more than 20 minutes."

While some residents in Hazleton were forced out in the cold, others in Nanticoke said if the can avoid being out in it, they will.

"It's freezing out, and I'm not even dress appropriately for it."

Kaitlyn Rushton goes to school at Luzerne County Community College. She stopped at Mike's Lower Broadway Minimart which has a full-service gas station.

"Yesterday I went to go pump my gas at a pump and the wind was whipping in my face. It's really nice to come here and have them pump your gas for you," Rushton said.

That's the job William Gommer does.

"Your hands are completely bare?"

"It's kind of hard to hold money with gloves on, so I kind of don't really like to use them," Gommer replied.
"He's got a lot of guts. I wouldn't do this job for anything, not in this kind of weather anyway," said Mark Washaik of Nanticoke.

 

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