On the day the memorial is dedicated. Synchronicity/coincidence.
OMG...
did you see this?
Bizarre. God help them.
Man...VT’s really getting slammed this year. Prayers for those affected and their families.
> carbon monoxide leak
A CO Leak? We pipe that stuff around?
See this?
CO being carbon monoxide, for those who didn’t do so well in chemistry class.
BLACKSBURG, Va. — Two Virginia Tech students were in critical condition and 15 other people were hospitalized Sunday after a carbon monoxide leak at an apartment complex, police said.
The two women were taken to the University of Virginia Medical Center in Charlottesville and their three roommates were taken to Duke University Medical Center in Durham, N.C., after being found unconscious in their beds in the Collegiate Suites apartment complex, police Capt. Bruce Bradbery said. All five women are students.
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Two of the women flown to Duke could breathe on their own but remained unresponsive, Bradbery said; he described the other as semiconscious. All three were in serious condition, authorities said.
Twelve others were taken to Montgomery Regional Hospital in Blacksburg, where they were in stable condition, hospital spokeswoman Suzanne Barnette said. At least four others were treated on the scene.
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Bradbery said the cause of the leak appeared to be a faulty valve on the hot water heater in the women’s four-bedroom apartment that was stuck open.
Readings taken by the Blacksburg Fire Department before noon showed carbon monoxide levels of 500 parts per million in the apartment shared by the five women, Bradbery said. People experience symptoms of carbon monoxide poisoning at levels as low as 25 parts per million, he said.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/19/AR2007081901150.html
This is even worse than you all might think. These people are not going to wake up.