DENVER (CBS4)- Students at the University of Denver were allowed to return to Nelson Hall after they were forced out during an investigation into increased carbon monoxide levels.
At about 4 a.m. Friday several CO detectors sounded in Nelson Hall, a student residency dorm.
Denver firefighters responded and found high readings of carbon monoxide. Those readings were not dangerous but several hundred students were asked to leave the building during the investigation.
Firefighters are bringing in extra-sensitive equipment to seek out any increase that wasn’t originally detected.
Firefighters do not believe it was a carbon monoxide leak and are focusing on the ventilation system as a potential cause for the sounding of the alarms at about 3:30 a.m.
Two students complained of nausea and they were checked out by paramedics. They were not taken to the hospital.
Every sleeping room on the DU campus has a carbon monoxide alarm. That change was made after the death of a DU student who lived in off campus housing in 2009.
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