CHAMBERSBURG, PA. - Two of the five victims of a carbon monoxide poisoning incident in Chambersburg on Feb. 15 asked the Chambersburg Borough Council to consider making detectors for the potentially deadly gas mandatory in some rental properties.
"I was one of the CO (carbon monoxide) victims ... I believe CO detectors should be required in apartments" that have furnaces, Nancy Redcay of 120 S. Third St. told the council. The council did not call for making the detectors mandatory, but asked solicitor Thomas Finucane to come up with some type of incentive for landlords to install the devices.
Robert Redcay said he spent five days at a hospital in Altoona, Pa., and Nancy Redcay said she was in a Pittsburgh hospital for four days. She said three other people that were in the house, including her son, remain hospitalized.
Her son, Daniel Brown Jr., is at the Rehabilitation Center at Kernan Hospital in Baltimore, having been discharged from the University of Maryland Hospital on Saturday, Nancy Redcay said. Another man, Gregory Kerdeman, is at the same facility, she said.