An Edmonton woman taken to hospital after being exposed to carbon monoxide at home is calling for changes to the Alberta building code to mandate alarms in all residences.
Yamilé López was one of seven people taken to hospital early on Feb. 7 after paramedics and firefighters discovered high levels of the colourless, odourless toxic gas in the basement of her Ritchie apartment building, which was built in the 1970s.
The company that owns the building told CBC that a carbon monoxide detector it had installed on the ground floor activated but was disabled by a tenant who thought it was a false
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