YMHA offices evacuated after carbon monoxide detected

YOUNGSTOWN

A ventilation problem sent staff at the Youngstown Metropolitan Housing Authority home early Wednesday.

Firefighters were called to the West Boardman Street offices when a staff member complained of symptoms associated with carbon monoxide poisoning around 10 a.m.

Cliff Scott, YMHA director, said staff on the first few floors of the building were sent home as a precaution. Residents on the upper floors of the Amedia Plaza building were not evacuated.

Scott said Dominion East Ohio crews located the source of the problem in the boiler room of the basement where a broken vent was not sending air out of the building.