Last night, a family ran out of heating oil for their home in Brentwood, Long Island, so Marie Claudia Blaise decided to fire up a charcoal grill. Today, she, her husband and their three kids ended up hospitalized for carbon monoxide poisoning and she was also hit with charges of second-degree reckless endangerment.
Husband Yves Blaise told Newsday that this mornining he found his wife passed out in the room where the BBQ grill was—"he revived his wife and 'asked her, 'Do you want an ambulance?' She said yes, and I knew she was in trouble.'" He added, before visiting his wife in the hospital, that he was buying more heating oil and that the charge should be dropped, "Everyone knows it was an accident."
Newsday points out, "Burning charcoal contains carbon monoxide, a deadly, colorless, tasteless, odorless gas."
