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Police: Mom lit grill to heat house

Yves Blaise stands in the backyard of his

Photo credit: James Carbone | Yves Blaise stands in the backyard of his home on Merrill Street in Brentwood near the barbecue grill that his wife used to heat the home, causing the family to suffer from carbon monoxide poisoning. (March 16, 2011)

Five members of a Brentwood family were hospitalized with carbon monoxide poisoning Wednesday after the mother lit a charcoal grill for heat because the household had run out of heating oil, police said.

Marie Claudia Blaise, 43, was charged with second-degree reckless endangerment, Suffolk County police said. She was hospitalized at Nassau University Medical Center in East Meadow in serious...

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