A 13-year-old Maryland girl has been credited with saving her mother from carbon monoxide poisoning. Katie Hagan ran back into her home in Clover Ridge after realizing she was feeling ill from carbon monoxide exposure just in time to watch her mother collapse and begin to vomit, the Frederick News-Post reported.
Wendy Hagan, Katie’s mother, had come home from Christmas shopping one night last week and left her car running in the garage, she told the News-Post. Both mother and daughter were feeling ill, but shrugged off their headaches even after discovering the car with its engine running the garage.
Katie began feeling better once she left the house for school and connected the dots. When she went back inside she found her mother had collapsed and begun vomiting. She called 911 and paramedics took the two to the hospital.
– Freeman Klopott
