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Date last updated: Friday, October 6, 16:36 PST


10/08/2006

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Silent killer: Danger of carbon monoxide hits close to home in Colo.


By Bill Reed
The Gazette (Colorado)

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — Johnna Chapman was in the kitchen when she heard her 2-year-old daughter collapse. By the time she ran to the family room, the girl was convulsing on the floor.

Chapman screamed for her husband and called 911. She ran upstairs to put on clothes for the ambulance ride and passed out in her bedroom. When firefighters arrived, they almost beat down the door before a groggy Randy Chapman turned the knob.

The Chapman family was moments away from dying of carbon monoxide poisoning. Johnna, 7-year-old Brock and 2-year-old Megan were unconscious.

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