FOUR Singapore Airlines staff who fell ill at a hotel in San Francisco last Thursday may have suffered from carbon monoxide exposure, a city fire official said.
The quartet, who stayed in separate hotel rooms at the San Francisco Marriott Marquis, began complaining of flu-like symptoms late on Thursday and were rushed to the hospital.
Three of them were released and returned to the hotel early last Friday, a hotel spokesman said. The fourth was expected to be released later.
The poisonous gas may have been released from a nearby restaurant's recently repaired heater and sucked into the hotel's air intake system, said Lt Mindy Talmadge a fire department spokesman.
That same heater may have sickened two other guests staying in the same two hotel rooms last Tuesday, Lt Talmadge said.
'That's what we're looking at right now,' said Lt Talmadge, adding that the carbon monoxide levels in those rooms dropped dramatically when firefighters shut off the heater on Friday. The restaurant is temporarily closed, Lt Talmadge added.
-- AP
The last thing u want .. is to be gased in your hotel room...