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ILEA CO leak

Ironically, I was just in the main building a week or two ago looking at a desk that was for a gov deals online auction. I assume this CO leak was in the dorms. Sounds like the LEO students will be OK for the most part. Stay safe everyone.
 
Posts: 2516 | Location: Iowa by way of Missouri | Registered: July 18, 2002Reply With QuoteReport This Post
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Glad everyone appears to be OK and recovering.

However, that story doesn't make sense as you wouldn't smell anything from CO. Now, if they had a natural gas leak the mercaptan (i.e. the obnoxious odorant added to gas) would be able to be smelled. I guess a gas appliance / furnace with some horribly incomplete combustion of the natural gas could have CO, natural gas, and mercaptan as a by-product.



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The odor may have been a coincidence. I can tell you 100% that the students had elevated CO levels.

The ILEA facility is a dump. It's shameful on a good day and dangerous on a bad day. They had a major water issue flood a large part of the dorms recently. There's never any money to replace the facility.
 
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