Carbon monoxide scare on Kingsbury Grade
Three rooms at the Lodge at Kingsbury Crossing in Stateline had to be evacuated today because of carbon monoxide.
An alarm went off in one room just before 10am Oct. 14. The odorless gas then spread to two other rooms.
“It was coming from the vent, but we’re not sure if it was drawing from somewhere else,” Tahoe Douglas Fire Marshal Eric Guevin told Lake Tahoe News.
It’s possible the heater could be the source, or it could have been from the exhaust of a vehicle that was left running near the air intake.
The county building department and utility company also responded to the Lower Kingsbury Grade resort.
No one was hurt or became ill.
The heat was shut off and the rooms cleared of the potentially deadly gas.
All tourist accommodation units are supposed to have carbon monoxide detectors in each room per Nevada law. The same goes for California. In Douglas County, these get inspected each year by the fire department.
— Lake Tahoe News staff report