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Last updated on Thursday, December 21, 2017
(GARY)- Authorities say an elderly woman is dead and a young girl was in critical condition after they apparently suffered carbon monoxide poisoning in northwestern Indiana.
Gary Fire Department spokesman Mark Jones says crews responded Wednesday afternoon to a home on the city's west side and found an oven was on. He says firefighters discovered high carbon monoxide readings and found two people in cardiac arrest.
Jones tells The (Northwest Indiana) Times the woman was pronounced dead at a hospital. WLS-TV reports the child was airlifted to a Chicago hospital.
Jones says the oven was apparently being used to help heat the home. The TV station reports, however, that the home had furnace problems that were being repaired.
The child was reportedly 4 or 5 years old. Names weren't immediately released.
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