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Three employees were taken to hospital Sunday after emergency crews responded to a carbon monoxide incident at Beachburger in Laurentian Valley.
A source familiar with the response told Renfrew County Scanner that carbon monoxide levels inside the restaurant reached nearly 2,800 parts per million, far exceeding Ontario’s workplace exposure limits.
Emergency crews evacuated the building while paramedics assessed three employees before transporting them to hospital. Their conditions were not immediately available.
Carbon monoxide is a colourless, odourless gas that can cause serious illness or death at high concentrations. Officials had not released the cause of the buildup as of publication.
(Richard Evans)
