Three people are dead and two more are critically injured after a suspected carbon monoxide leak at a music festival in Brooklyn, Michigan, over the weekend, officials said.
The fatal incidents happened inside a travel trailer at a campground near the Faster Horses Festival, an annual country music event featuring performers such as Jason Aldean and Luke Combs. Emergency dispatchers received a 911 call at around 1:30 p.m. on Saturday from a person who discovered the victims unconscious.
First responders “found five males in their early 20s inside the travel trailer, all unresponsive. Further medical staff arrived on the scene and began administering CPR,” according to the Lenawee County sheriff’s department.
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Three of the men died at the scene, and the two critical victims are being treated for acute carbon monoxide poisoning. Investigators are looking into the cause of death relating to a generator located near the trailer.
“First Responders stress the importance of keeping generators away from camping areas, tents, travel trailers, etc. as well as exhaust fumes from running vehicles,” the department wrote in a statement.
Authorities did not release the names of those affected by the presumed leak. A 30-year-old woman named Melissa Donna Havens also died at the festival on Saturday, unrelated to the victims in the trailer.
Investigators with the Michigan State Police are looking into the cause of Havens’s death, noting the woman was last seen with “a black male in his 30’s, short black hair, short beard and wearing a gray hoodie.”
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There is no further danger or threat to those still attending the festival, detectives with the Michigan State Police said in a statement.
