A 29-year-old Bloomfield woman has died of apparent carbon monoxide poisoning.
Police responded to 22 Harding Ave. around 11 p.m. on Tuesday after the woman's family could not contact her. Officers went into the home and found the woman dead inside. It appears she had been overcome by carbon monoxide, according to police.
Officers found a generator running the basement, police said.
It is the latest of three carbon monoxide deaths since Saturday's massive winter storm left hundreds of thousands without power.
An Enfield woman in her 80s was killed by carbon monoxide on Tuesday. The woman and her husband were staying with their son in a home where a generator was set up outside, officials said.
The exhaust might have entered the house through an eave above where the generator was located. All three occupants of the house were taken to the hospital to be treated for elevated carbon monoxide levels. The husband and son were OK. The woman who died had other health issues, officials said.
An 85-year-old Sharon man also died of carbon monoxide poisoning on Tuesday.
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State Police said a generator was powering Richard Rothchild's Knibloe Hill Road home. The exhaust pipes were properly venting outside the house, but a muffler was broken, allowing the carbon monoxide to fill the home, police said.
Gov. Dannel Malloy said on Wednesday that 135 people have sought medical treatment for carbon monoxide poisoning.
There have been at least six storm-related deaths in Connecticut since the storm.
A woman in her 80s died in a fire in West Hartford Tuesday night. Investigators said they believe an alternative source the woman and her husband were using to heat their home may have sparked the fire.
If true, the woman would be the state's seventh storm-related death.
