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UES Building Evacuated Amid High Carbon Monoxide Levels

By DNAinfo staff
March 8, 2011 7:24am | Updated March 8, 2011 7:24am
Residents at 797 Lexington Avenue had to be evacuated from their homes Monday night after a spike in carbon monoxide gas.
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By Gabriela Resto-Montero

DNAinfo Reporter/Producer

MANHATTAN — Several floors of a residential building on Lexington Avenue and East 62nd Street were evacuated Monday night after authorities found higher-than-normal levels of carbon monoxide.

Firefighters evacuated residents from 797 Lexington Avenue shortly before midnight and allowed them to return at 1:54 a.m. when CO2 levels had dropped.

A broken boiler in the building may have caused the carbon monoxide levels to spike, according to the FDNY.

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