Squaw Valley lost three seasonal workers on Tuesday when a security guard discovered the women dead in their running car in an employee parking lot at 1:05 PM. They had apparently died from carbon monoxide poisoning.
Lacey Louann Sutton, 22, of Marysville, Sara Alice McCullah, 21, of Marysville, and a 17-year-old from Loma Rica whose name was not released because of her age, were pronounced dead. Investigators found no evidence of alcohol or other drug use, and there were no signs of foul play. It snowed 10 inches the night before, and Giovannini said the exhaust fumes probably got blocked and then seeped through the floorboards. Exhaust you can smell because of the other chemicals in it. Carbon monoxide has no smell, no taste, no color,” he said. “If it’s slow and starts building up you will get drowsy, you might get nauseous and you begin to lose consciousness.”
Our thoughts are with their families and friends.
[Link: San Francisco Chronicle via Transworld Business]
