Word: carbonizing
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...sumptuous house the family had settled into just the year before, joining a group that included two across-the-lane neighbors, Thomas Skakel, 17, and his 15-year-old brother Michael. If the Moxleys were well off, the Skakels were Greenwich royalty. Rushton Skakel was chairman of Great Lakes Carbon, one of the world's largest privately held companies. In a union of money, power and more money, Skakel's sister Ethel had married Bobby Kennedy in 1950, making Rushton's seven children Kennedy cousins. Martha Moxley, pretty, vivacious and popular, became part of their crowd. (Later Dorthy found...
...Cambridge Fire Department (CFD) detected dangerous carbon monoxide gas in some apartments and ordered the evacuation. Shortly after residents began to evacuate, the built-up gas caused an explosion under a manhole...
...Lacoste said Cambridge Electric has not yet determined the cause of the short circuit. The utility is also unsure why carbon monoxide gas from the fire leaked into the complex, which mostly houses Harvard graduate students and their families...
Power was shut down at about 12:30 p.m. on Sunday so CFD could extinguish the fire, and was restored about four hours later. But residents were not permitted to return to their homes until almost 9 p.m. because CFD had to test carbon monoxide levels in each apartment...
Rosenthal said no one had come to him with symptoms of carbon monoxide poisoning, which normally include lightheadedness and nausea...