Gas leak at Merchant Marine Academy
Photo credit: Howard Schnapp | Emergency personnel respond to the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy, where authorities say dozens of people were treated after a carbon monoxide leak at the Kings Point campus. (Jan. 8, 2012)
At least 42 people were taken from the United States Merchant Marine Academy in Kings Point to area hospitals for evaluation late Sunday night after carbon monoxide was discovered leaking from a water heater at the facility, Nassau County and Kings Point police said.
The leak came from a water heater in the basement of Barry Hall, said Sgt. James Dalgish of the Kings Point Police Department.
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