Fenton Township, MI – A family of six was found dead inside a Michigan home and officials said on Sunday they believed carbon monoxide was to blame.
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Four children, aged between 2 and 11-years-old, were among the dead who were found in separate rooms of the Fenton Township house, Genesee County Sheriff Robert Pickell told reporters on Sunday.
“It’s very difficult,” Pickell said in a recording of the on-site news conference published online by local broadcaster WJRT. “No matter how many investigations you conduct, seeing young children and an entire family wiped out is a very, very sad thing.”
He said the family seemed to have a generator running in the house, some 50 miles (80 km) northwest of Detroit, after a power outage in the area on Friday. He said the husband’s father was the one who called police on Sunday.
He said an investigation was underway.
Just tragic–everyone–please make sure you have working smoke alarms and carbon monoxide equipment in your house or apartment. PLEASE!!!!
It should say if they had carbon monoxide alarms or not… But this is another unfortunate warning that we must all make sure we have the alarms. One death is too much, all the more 6…worlds destroyed…
And DON’T run a generator IN THE HOUSE!!!!