A downtown high-rise apartment building has been evacuated Wednesday due to a carbon monoxide leak, officials say.[[390521441,R]]
The evacuation was ordered before 9 p.m. at the 16-story CityWalk Apartments on the 500 block of North Akard Street.
A boiler malfunction in the basement caused the leak, and a "handful" of people were reporting symptoms consistent with carbon monoxide exposure, said Dallas Fire-Rescue spokesman Jason Evans.
"I got home from work, my son said his head was hurting. He asked if we had any pain medicine. And then he said, 'Well, let's check the C-O levels. We plugged in our carbon monoxide detector and it went off. So we called the fire department and they came out and they did a reading and it was very high so they asked us to leave the building," resident Carla Tchandga said.
Nobody has been transported to the hospital for treatment.
The malfunctioning boiler was shut off, and Dallas Fire-Rescue crews are venting the building before residents will be allowed back inside.
There is no estimate on how long the ventilation process may take.
