By Associated Press - Wednesday, November 21, 2018

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - Fire officials say five residents of a Providence apartment building were taken to the hospital with symptoms of carbon monoxide poisoning.

Battalion Chief Jason Houle says one of the victims, a girl of about 5, was vomiting.

Firefighters went to University Heights on Roger Williams Green at about 7:30 a.m. Wednesday after the people living in one unit woke up feeling ill. They did not appear to have had a working carbon monoxide detector in their unit.



The source of the carbon monoxide appears to be a faulty heating unit. High levels of the gas were detected in the apartment.

He says off of the victims are expected to be OK.

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