A carbon monoxide leak in a Mat-Su Valley home left one woman dead and sent a man and child to the hospital Thursday morning.
A 911 call was received just after 9 a.m. Thursday from a home on Krysten Circle in the Meadow Lakes area between Wasilla and Houston. The caller and another person arrived at the home to find a man suffering from "ineffective breathing," said Clint Vardeman, deputy director of emergency services for the Matanuska-Susitna Borough. Ineffective breathing is when the lungs are moving but not enough to bring air to fully oxygenate the brain.
"We were on scene at 9:17," Vardeman said. The woman was pronounced dead on the scene. The man was medevaced to Providence Alaska Medical Center in Anchorage, and the 4-year-old child was transported by ground ambulance to Mat-Su Regional Hospital. Vardeman did not have an update on their conditions.
The two people who came to check on the family were taken to the Mat-Su Regional hospital in a non-emergency ambulance.
Enstar Natural Gas Co. was "on scene and exploring the boiler room" for possible carbon monoxide leaks, Vardeman said.
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