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Health & Fitness

WORKERS OVERCOME BY FUMES

On Monday, August 12, 2013, at 12:40 PM, the Broomall Fire Company was dispatched to 11 Martins Run, (the Martins Run Care Center), for fumes in the building and a report of people overcome.  

The first arriving chief found three adult subjects, who had been operating a gasoline saw in a bathroom inside the care center, dazed and sickened from carbon monoxide.  

While medics from Marple and Newtown Township’s Ambulance Corps attended to the stricken men, firefighters from Broomall and Newtown Square sealed off the non-contaminated portions of the care center and operated smoke ejectors and blowers to remove the poisonous gas from the building.  

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One contractor was transported by the Marple Ambulance to the Hospital of University of Pennsylvania while the other two refused treatment.  

With reading in excess of 1,000 parts per million of carbon monoxide gas in the bathroom, it took firefighters over 30 minutes to drop the readings to an acceptable zero in all portions of the affected building.  

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The Incident Commander was Chief Carl E. Drake of Broomall Fire Company. 

Tony Cavarocchi

Public Information Officer

Broomall Fire Company - 53

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