Carbon monoxide levels high at senior living facility

Everyone is safe after a carbon monoxide scare Saturday at a Palm Desert senior living facility.

Around 10:30 Saturday morning an alarm alerted authorities to unsafe levels of carbon monoxide at Segovia Senior Living on the corner of Country Club Dr. and Monterey Ave.

When firefighters arrived they found that the carbon monoxide levels in the building were above average, the source was exhaust from a gasoline engine.

Firefighters ventilated the building and requested a hazmat team.

Nobody was injured.

Carbon monoxide can displace oxygen when it fills a room causing people inside to drift asleep and then die.