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Jan 5, 2009 6:43 am US/Mountain

Family Thankful For Carbon Monoxide Detectors

Reporting
Stan Bush
BRECKENRIDGE, Colo. (CBS4) ― A Denver family says the tragedy that killed another family in Aspen may have saved its lives over the holiday season when their vacation home filled with dangerous levels of carbon monoxide.

The Glass family was staying at their vacation home in Breckenridge. They had just purchased some carbon monoxide detectors for the home after hearing about the deaths of the Lofgren family in Aspen a few weeks earlier over Thanksgiving.

Those detectors may have saved the Glass family from a similar fate.

"If we had actually just said 'let's go to bed, let's drink a lot water, let's do all the things you do for altitude sickness' I be very scared to think what would have happened the next morning," said Mike Glass.

Pitkin County passed a law last month requiring all buildings to have carbon monoxide detectors. That includes the Aspen area.

State lawmakers are proposing a bill for the upcoming legislative session that would do the same across all of Colorado.

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