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Mich. Police Officers Help Save Man from Carbon Monoxide Poisoning

Feb. 18, 2025

A well-being check by Muskegon Heights police found a man unconscious on his kitchen floor after he had been heating his home with a stove, and officers helped perform "life-saving measures."

By Kayla Tucker

Source mlive.com

MUSKEGON HEIGHTS, MI—A man is expected to make a full recovery after public safety officers found him on the floor of his home suffering from carbon monoxide poisoning, Muskegon Heights Police Chief Maurice Sain said Tuesday.

Over the weekend, Muskegon Heights police officers and firefighters performed life-saving measures on the man, who was heating his home with a stove. He was not identified.

“The stove had a heat reading over 187 degrees and the house registered a very high level of carbon monoxide,” the police department reported Feb. 18.

Sain praised the officers who discovered the man for a “job well done.”

Police officers Amiya Overstreet and Mitch Wilson conducted a well-being check on Saturday, Feb. 15, after the department was contacted by concerned citizens about not having heard from the man in two weeks.

The officers first went to the 400 block of E. Broadway Avenue, but the home was vacant. After talking to neighbors and looking at prior police contacts with the man, the officers then went to check another address in the 2100 block of Superior Street, where the man was located.

He was found on the kitchen floor of the home.

The officers, along with first responders from the Muskegon Heights Fire Department, performed “life-saving measures” on the man, who was then transported to a local hospital.

Additional details about the situation, including an update on the man’s condition was not available.

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