Home’s occupants sickened; one dies

LEXINGTON, Ind. — A woman died and six other people, including three children, received medical treatment after apparently being sickened by carbon monoxide fumes from a gasoline-powered generator set up inside a southern Indiana home, police said.

Scott County deputies who were called early Wednesday to the home found that the generator was being used indoors, police said.

Terri Hart, 51, was found dead inside the home, while a 23-year-old and three children ages 6, 4 and 3 months, were taken to hospitals, police said. Two other people were treated at the scene.

Hart’s cause of death will not be determined until autopsy results are received, but authorities said a preliminary investigation revealed signs of carbon monoxide poisoning.

“The rest of the folks in the home are going to be OK and as time goes on, they are going to recover,” Scott County Sheriff Jerry Goodin told WLKY-TV. The home in the unincorporated community of Lexington, about 25 miles north of Louisville, Ky., did not have electricity service, Goodin said.

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