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PREVENTING CARBON MONOXIDE POISONING

• Service all heating systems and all gas-, oil- or coal-burning appliances by a technician annually.

• Install a battery-operated and electric-powered carbon monoxide detector in your home and check or replace the battery when you change the time on your clocks each spring and fall. If the detector sounds, leave your home immediately and call 911.

• Contact a doctor if you believe you have carbon monoxide poisoning.

• Do not use gas-powered devices such as a generator, grill or stove inside your home, basement or near a near a window or door. Generators should be operated more than 15 feet from the home.

• Do not run any gas-powered motor inside a closed structure, such as a garage.

• Do not heat a home with a gas oven.

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House fire in Dearborn leaves at least one man seriously injured

Firefighters pulled a man out of a burning house on Oxford Street. A house on Oxford Street caught fire in the early morning hours Nov. 17. A house fire in the overnight hours Nov. 17 has sent at least one man to the hospital in serious condition. The fire occurred after midnight Nov. 17 on Oxford Street in west Dearborn. This story will be updated.

Novi Fire Capt. Charles Roberts recently graduated from Eastern Michigan University’s School of Fire Staff and Command leadership program. His graduating class included more than 40 other fire department professionals from about 40 communities throughout the state.

Novi Fire Captain John Martin has been promoted to assistant fire chief, filling a position that has been vacant for the past 10 years because of a reorganization within the public safety department. Martin has been fighting fires since 1997 when he joined the Macomb Township Fire Department. He served as Macomb’s firefighter and training coordinator until 2006.

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Livonia fire investigators were at Parkway Heights Apartments Friday morning, sifting through wreckage to determine what caused an overnight fire there. The department’s Senior Captain Michael Magda said firefighters were called to the apartment building at Wayne Road and Ann Arbor Trail at about 3 a.m. because of 9-1-1 calls.

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