The State Medical Examiner’s Office report revealed significantly elevated levels of CO in both male residents.
FAIRBANKS, Alaska - Alaska State Troopers have released the names of two North Pole residents found dead in a residential workshop a week ago. Jacob Wegner and Robert Melvin Brockway III, both age 40, were found deceased last Wednesday. Carbon monoxide poisoning is the suspected cause of death.
Next of kin have been notified, and a 41-year-old woman who was found unresponsive at the scene has been treated and released from a local hospital.Dispatch states, on November 23 at 1:37 p.m., the North Star Volunteer Fire Department responded to a residence off Mill Pond Road in North Pole, for a report of an unresponsive adult male in a residential workshop. EMS crews found two adult males deceased and an unresponsive female.
Carbon monoxide is an odorless, colorless gas that is very difficult to detect. “Carbon monoxide can kill before the presence is known. There are no early warning signs,” said Fairbanks Fire Chief Scott Raygor “and every house should have a minimum of one carbon monoxide detector per floor.”
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