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Not trying to open up a new argument on Generators, but just want to  
remind folks of the carbon monoxide hazards when sleeping in a horse  
trailer.  The investment in a Carbon Monoxide Detector could possibly  
have prevented this incident...........

Two men found dead in horse trailer at SoCal equestrian park
The Associated Press
Published 2:42 am PST Saturday, February 24, 2007

Two men were found dead in a horse trailer at a Riverside County  
equestrian park after they were apparently overcome by carbon monoxide  
fumes from a gas generator, authorities said.

The men, identified as Jorge Rodriguez-Ramirez, 47, of Vancouver,  
Wash., and Armando Sanchez Gallardo, 21, were discovered early Friday,  
sheriff's officials said. It wasn't immediately known where Gallardo  
was from.

Their bodies were in a trailer parked in a lot at the HITS Desert  
Horse Park in Thermal, located a few miles south of Coachella in  
Riverside County. A portable gas generator had been used to keep them  
warm as they slept.

"The decedents appeared to have been overcome by carbon monoxide fumes  
from the generator's exhaust," the Sheriff's Department said in a  
statement.

Autopsies were expected to be performed Monday.

Further details were not immediately available.




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