Florida hotel closes after guest death from toxic fumes
Some Florida lawmakers are calling for carbon-monoxide detectors to be placed in all of the state’s hotel rooms after the death of a guest just after Christmas in an upscale Key West property.
The guest died from carbon-monoxide poisoning, according to health officials. Hotel officials said the deadly fumes emanated from the hotel’s fourth-floor boiler room, which was next door to the room where the guest was staying, reported the Miami Herald.
Several other people were also taken to a hospital and treated, including the hotel’s general manager. He administered CPR to victims.
The hotel had been told by hospital officials that another family had been treated days earlier for the toxic fumes, according to news reports.
Thomas Leuders, 26, and his father Richard, 53, were found unconscious in their fourth-floor room at the Doubletree Grand Key Resort from carbon monoxide poisoning Dec. 27. Thomas Leuders died at a nearby hospital, while his father survived emergency treatment.
The 216-room Doubletree Grand Key Resort in Key West, Fla., has been closed until March 1
Report by David Wilkening
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