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Pastimes : Carbon Monoxide Mortality and Morbidity -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Shoot1st who wrote (183)	2/3/2008 11:05:38 AM
From: Shoot1st	Respond to of 265

I use Google to feed me CO stories. I get a half dozen or so deaths and disabilities each day. do the same and do not become a statistic. A family member reacts after a mother and her children die from carbon monoxide Last Update: 2/02 9:07 pm Reporter: Danielle Dubetz Photographer: Bruno Giglio "Let her borrow the generator. Now look what happened. My baby's gone." The day after 29 year old Yolanda McCloud McGriff was found dead inside of her home, along with her two daughters, Alexia and Reyona her uncle Leon McCloud is fighting regret. "I would try to help her the best way I can, you know? That's the problem. I helped her too much. I helped her too much and I'm not happy about what I did." Family and neighbors say the Indian River County single mom was a hard worker holding down two jobs to help provide the American dream for her young daughters. "She didn't ask nobody for nothing." But when she couldn't pay her power bill and the service was shut off, she did ask to borrow her uncle's generator until more money came. He showed her how to work it. "Turn the switch on, pull it, fire it up. Not to use it in the house." On Friday, the generator was found inside the home, switched on and out of gas. McGriff and her daughters were found lifeless. Investigators believe their deaths were caused by carbon monoxide poisoning. "I was trying to help her out and it was my fault because I should have never let her borrow it." But with no way to go back, he pushes forward by keeping a simple promise to take care of the lawn of the home she worked so hard for. "That's one of the last things I promised her and I'm going to cut it tomorrow, or the next day, or the next week. I'll keep it up for her." Investigators are calling the childrens' deaths accidental. Autopsy results on 11 year old Reyona and 10 year old Alexia, confirmed they died of carbon monoxide poisoning. The mother's autopsy is expected on Monday.