Three people have died in a Nahant home with elevated levels of carbon monoxide, according to authorities.
Police and fire personnel were sent to a house on Cottage Street Monday night to check on the people there, according to a press release from the North Shore town. They found the bodies of three adult family members as well as elevated carbon monoxide levels in the home, according to Police Chief Timothy Furlong and Fire Chief Austin Antrim.
Authorities said foul play is not suspected and Furlong said in the release there is no danger to the community.
People were asked last night around 10:45 p.m. to avoid the area while investigators, including the Nahant Police and Fire departments and State Police detectives assigned to the Essex County District Attorney’s Office were on the scene.
Cottage Street is a dead-end road with about five houses on it only a couple blocks away from Stony Beach and Nahant Bay, according to Google Maps.
“Wonderful people — salt of the earth. Wonderful people. You wouldn’t get better people. Just wonderful. It’s shocking,” neighbor Ted Mahoney told WCVB.
