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76 Iowa LEO students hospitalized for CO poisoning

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November 15, 2018, 09:25 PM
Scuba Steve Sig
76 Iowa LEO students hospitalized for CO poisoning
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.
November 15, 2018, 10:13 PM
tatortodd
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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November 16, 2018, 04:34 AM
DaBigBR
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.