Summit Fire & EMS responded to two calls this week where carbon monoxide created life-threatening situations — including one call that resulted in five people being sent to the hospital. "In both instances, we were extremely fortunate that those involved called 9-1-1, or our community may have suffered a horrible tragedy,” the agency wrote in a Facebook post. The first call came in Sunday, after a resident in a Silverthorne condominium complex awoke just before 5 a.m. to what they initially thought was a fire alarm. Firefighters determined that the building’s fire alarms were not activated, and therefore the alarms did not trigger an automated 911 call, the post states. However, multiple carbon monoxide alarms, which do not automatically alert 911, had been triggered. Read more ...