DES MOINES, Iowa – One person is dead from carbon monoxide poisoning and another is recovering after a furnace malfunctioned at a Des Moines home.
WHO-TV reports the two people were working on a vehicle overnight in a garage in the Union Park neighborhood when one of them became sick and went to a hospital.
Doctors determined he was ill from carbon monoxide. The fire department was then sent to the home in n the 400 block of Hull Avenue at 5:46 a.m. Friday,where they found one person dead inside the garage.
The furnace is believed to be the source of the carbon monoxide leak.
The name of the deceased person has not been released.
(Image Courtesy of WHO-TV)