When nurse Lisa Dunham was working at Providence Holy Family Hospital’s emergency room on Thanksgiving evening, a family brought in two children to be checked out. They spoke English as a second language and their translator was all of 12 years old, so communication was a little difficult. Dunham examined the two children and quickly realized it probably wasn’t a virus that made the family feel sick, but carbon monoxide poisoning. “The triage nurse had this hunch so we checked the carbon monoxide level in the kids, and they were high,” said Dunham. “Then we checked the parents, too, and they were high.” At that point Dunham asked if there were anyone else at the house, and was told that there were four more people.
