We're hearing from the Fort Worth firefighters who saved the lives of six people sickened by carbon monoxide Tuesday night.
A girl who lives in a home on Orleans Ln. called 911 to say that her entire family had passed out.
They had been poisoned by carbon monoxide.
The culprit was a car that had inadvertently been left running in the garage.
"Right when we opened the door, the girl that did call 911 looked at us and said, 'Mama upstairs,' and then she collapsed," said Fort Worth Fire Lt. Robby Leonguerrero. "On the stairs was another girl head down, unconscious, vomiting. Then you look upstairs, there's a little boy who's unconscious."
In fact, all other family members inside the home were unconscious.
"The only conscious person was the girl that answered the door," says Lt. Leonguerrero.
With time of the essence, firefighters acted right away.
"Just by knowing what CO does to you and how long you have, they didn't have long," Leonguerrero says. "So we made a decision to act immediately."
Firefighters quickly got the mother and her five children out of the house.
"We did it pretty efficiently," says Leonguerrero. "I think we got it done within five minutes."
All six were rushed to hospitals in critical condition.
"When we saw them, we initially told them we thought they were dead, we really did," Leonguerrero says. "It was that bad."
It's unknown whether the home had a working carbon monoxide detector.
As of a Tuesday afternoon news conference, Fort Worth Fire did not have an update on the victims' conditions.
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