FOM2017-7246
State Fire Marshal J. William Degnan announces with Litchfield Fire Chief Frank Fraitzl and Litchfield Police Captain Benjamin Sargent, an update to the fatal carbon monoxide investigation at 22 Moose Hollow Road in Litchfield, NH.
On July 12, 2017, at approximately 6:00 p.m. the Litchfield Police and Fire Departments were requested to check the welfare of individuals residing at the above address. During the course of checking their welfare, police and fire personnel discovered a deceased male occupant and a female occupant who was alive but unresponsive in an upstairs bedroom. As a result of fire department air metering, personnel also confirmed the presence of high levels of carbon monoxide within the residence.
The female occupant was treated at the scene and then transported to Southern New Hampshire Medical Center and is receiving medical treatment.
Earlier today, the New Hampshire Medical Examiner’s Office conducted an autopsy of the deceased male. He has been identified as 40-year-old Jamie Badeau of Litchfield, NH. The cause of death was determined to be carbon monoxide poisoning and the manner of death has been ruled accidental.
The cause of the carbon monoxide release into the residence is still under investigation.
State Fire Marshal Degnan and Fire Chief Frank Fraitzl would like to remind all New Hampshire citizens of the importance of having working carbon monoxide alarms on every level of your home and outside of bedrooms. If you believe, you have been exposed to carbon monoxide, call 9-1-1 and go outside into the fresh air.
Carbon monoxide exposure can come from many common household appliances such as wood stoves, furnaces, hot water heaters, gas ovens and stoves, gas or kerosene space heaters, motor vehicles, and generators.
It is important to have chimneys and appliances serviced annually by a trained professional and to run any motor vehicles or generators a MINIMUM of 10 feet from the house with the exhaust facing away from the home and window