Six people were hospitalized after a carbon monoxide leak was detected at a Plymouth home.
Fire Chief Ed Bradley says that at approximately 7:15 a.m. Tuesday they responded to a 911 call for an odor coming from the basement of a home on Kings Pond Plain Rd.
Crews arrived on scene and after detecting high levels the home was evacuated.
Two adults and three young children were transported to Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital to receive medical care and a fourth child who went to school prior to firefighters’ arrival was transported from school to an area hospital.
Bradley says another adult within the home at the time of the incident declined treatment.
An on-scene investigation indicated that a malfunctioning furnace in the basement was the source of the carbon monoxide.
There was also an outdated carbon monoxide detector in the home and smoke alarms from 1999 that sounded off after firefighters arrived on the scene, which was too late to alert the home’s occupants.
The home was ventilated for roughly an hour and all of the patients have since been released from the hospital.
