Paul Trosper fired up the wood stove in his Corvallis garage Monday at he set about fixing a gasoline-powered generator.
“I noticed a hole in the stove pipe,” he recalled from his bed in a hospital ICU Tuesday. “I guess I just wasn’t thinking.”
His wife Violet found him unconscious, the victim of carbon monoxide poisoning.
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The pipe didn’t freeze, but the cold caused soil to shift, breaking a water main at 18th and Polk early Tuesday morning.Eugene Water & Electric Board crews got the call at 2 a.m. and got to work digging in.
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The Egan warming centers will be open again tonight, and officials are asking for volunteers to help out.
The investigation into a police traffic stop that turned deadly near a local high school last month is complete.District Attorney Alex Gardner plans a 2 p.m. press conference Tuesday on the police shooting Nov. 20 outside Churchill High School.
ALBANY — Quick thinking by an Albany couple out for a Monday afternoon ride alerted Spencer Kernats and his young daughter, Brooke, that their home at 2886 Grand Prairie Road S.E. was on fire.
Mark and Andrea Ylen were driving west on Grand Prairie Road about 2:45 p.m. when they noticed smoke coming from the older two-story house. The house is owned by Spencer’s father, Robert, who was not present.
The couple had been at Freeway Lakes scouting for weather photos. Mark is the photo editor of the Democrat-Herald.
“We saw dark smoke coming out from under the eaves and as soon as Mark parked the pickup, I ran across the road and started pounding on the door,” Andrea Ylen said. “I could hear the dog barking and knew something was alive inside.”
Kernats, 24, opened the door and had his daughter, Brooke, 2½, in his arms.
“He said he had just noticed the smoke and I asked him if I could take his daughter,” Ylen said. “I took her and asked if she had a coat and shoes. She was only wearing socks at that time. He got them and then got himself a coat.”
Ylen reported the fire and also made sure there were no other people in the home.
Gabby, the family’s dog, also escaped. Two family cats were missing.
Kernats told Mark Ylen that he could hear crackling and then saw something red near the wood burning stove in the kitchen area.
Other than the clothes on their backs, the family didn’t get anything else out of the house, although the exact amount of damage was not known late in the day.
“It was sad,” Andrea Ylen said. “When you think about the time of year and what this means to the family. It makes you wonder what we can do to help. We have three young children, and we might be able to help with some things.”
Albany Fire Department spokeswoman Wanda Omdahl said the amount of the loss was unknown Monday.
“It is an older home with several additions to it. The fire ran through the attic,” Omdahl said. “The family has insurance.”
Omdahl added that the family had already purchased Christmas presents, and it wasn’t known if they were destroyed.
According to information on file at the Linn County Assessor’s Office, the home was constructed in 1900 and is valued at $42,000.
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