{"id":67337,"date":"2016-12-26T19:10:27","date_gmt":"2016-12-27T02:10:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/residence-inn-pool-boiler-causes-carbon-monoxide-evacuation-in-durango\/"},"modified":"2016-12-27T02:10:27","modified_gmt":"2016-12-27T02:10:27","slug":"residence-inn-pool-boiler-causes-carbon-monoxide-evacuation-in-durango","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/residence-inn-pool-boiler-causes-carbon-monoxide-evacuation-in-durango\/","title":{"rendered":"Residence Inn pool boiler causes carbon monoxide evacuation in Durango"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=0a040fe2-75a8-4032-bd32-6ae20e3c7b2f&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"831\" height=\"467\" alt=\"\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">du1-i-syn<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>A pool boiler emitting carbon monoxide at the Residence Inn on Tuesday night led to an evacuation of the hotel and hospitalization of two boys.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know exactly when the boys were released from the hospital, but they were out by the next afternoon,\u201d said Fire Marshal Karola Hanks of the Durango Fire Protection District.<\/p>\n<p>The Durango Police Department helped Durango Fire evacuate the 29 rented rooms, and the owners of the Residence Inn moved them at the inn\u2019s expense to Holiday Inn Express, Homewood Suites and the Fairfield Inn &amp; Suites.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome staff members said they had headaches, but there were no other serious symptoms,\u201d Hanks said. \u201cWe did have professionals come in and evaluate all the fuel-fired appliances at the Residence Inn, and they narrowed it down to the pool boiler. Kids are more sensitive to carbon monoxide, and the boys had been playing in the pool area, where the carbon monoxide numbers were higher.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The gas was disconnected from the boiler Wednesday, and the inn was allowed to take lodgers at that point, although they waited until Thursday to make sure all the carbon monoxide had cleared, Hanks said. The owners intend to replace the entire boiler unit.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey did have carbon monoxide detectors throughout the hotel, but unfortunately, the one in the pool area was defective,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>The professionals who came in to check the hotel\u2019s appliances rescheduled their workload to devote an entire day to the review, she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd I was very pleased with the Residence Inn\u2019s response to it and how they handled it,\u201d Hanks said. \u201cThe owners said \u2018Safety first,\u2019 and there was no struggling to get them to help.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hanks recommends people with any fuel-driven appliances have carbon monoxide detectors in their homes or businesses and check them on a monthly basis.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve been finding they don\u2019t have as consistent a lifespan as smoke detectors,\u201d she said. \u201cCarbon monoxide is a silent, deadly killer, and we know that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_shirttail\"><a href=\"mailto:abutler@durangoherald.com\">abutler@durangoherald.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>hospitalized, guests moved from motel<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":67338,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[120,1480,1529],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-67337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-colorado","tag-durango-fire-protection-district","tag-lodging"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67337\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67337"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=67337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}