the big story on Action News tonight is the investigation underway at this hour after a mother father and daughter were all found dead inside their holmesburg home today police now tell us there were high levels of carbon monoxide detected inside this was the scene this afternoon along aser Street moments after officers arrived some of them seen in Hazmat gear police said they were called here to check on that family not seen since Monday when they went inside they made that horrific Discovery t
he bodies of the married couple and their 12-year-old daughter action news reporter John Paul live on the scene tonight John what are police telling you tonight yeah Brian it is suspected carbon monoxide poisoning they had crime seed tape up earlier they've taken that down now you can see the house behind me it has the front door open the windows are open we've actually been seeing family members going inside checking out the home now no one had heard from them in days police and fire were calle
d out here for that welfare check inside they found the two adults and a child dead Philadelphia police in fire were called out to this home in the 4,000 block of Asher in holmesburg for a welfare check just before one today the family inside hadn't been seen in days the cars still in the driveway alarms started going off on the meters that they carry in the house and yes there were high levels of of carbon monoxide in the house a 56-year-old man his 47-year-old wife and 12-year-old daughter wer
e all found dead inside the carbon monoxide fi home we're told another woman was also rushed to the hospital in stable condition I'm destroyed I'm hurt I'm hurt because he's such an amazing friend just a good person Katrina arama knew the man who died here she worked with him at Springfield Township High School she hadn't seen him since Friday he was telling me his daughter's birthday is on Saturday and that they're going to throw a birthday party he has to leave early because they have pick up
the birthday cake she had been calling and texting him since Monday when he didn't show up for school with no answer fire officials confirmed that the request for a welfare check did come from the school where the man worked but the source of the carbon monoxide is still unknown we saw Crews with gas sniffing devices around the home and on top of the roof checking the chimney and vents they also checked out a large bag or tarp that seemed to be wrapped around the chimney the bags on the side it'
s way too early to tell you know what what if any that had to do to to um to contri rute to this tragedy a tragedy that'll be felt here and in many school communities his daughter was just amazing and all he did was talk about his daughter she's just so sweet and intelligent and now as I mentioned the suspected CA of death death is a carbon monoxide poisoning but the medical examiner will have to make the official determination on that in the meantime police are not releasing the identity of tho
se three who died livean holmesburg John Paul Channel 6 Action News sh
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My God keep the family in prayers
Terrible freak accident.