Winter Storm Leads To Increase In Carbon Monoxide Poisoning Cases

(Fort Worth, TX) — The winter weather is causing a spike in reports of carbon monoxide poisoning in North Texas.

The Fort Worth Fire Department says it has responded to more than 80 calls about C-O leaks and poisoning. Power outages are prompting some families to try to keep warm by running a car inside the garage, or to keep the lights on by running a generator inside the house.

Cook Children’s Medical Center in Fort Worth treated more than a dozen kids for C-O poisoning overnight on Monday. Some of them were as young as five-years-old.