Carbon monoxide poisoning sends 43 students and staff to hospital in Montreal

Montreal's fire chief suspects a faulty heating system could be responsible for a carbon monoxide leak that sickened dozens of students and staff at an elementary school in the city's southwest end. First responders took 35 children between the ages of six and 13, along with eight adults from Des Decouvreurs elementary school to at least three Montreal-area hospitals.

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