A single mom says a sudden wave of intuition — and a blaring alarm — helped her escape a deadly carbon monoxide leak with her son during a power outage
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- Mallory Brooks, a mom in Springfield, Mo., set up a generator during a storm-induced blackout to cool her home
- Hours later, a creeping sense of dread led her to check on her son — just as a carbon monoxide alarm began to blare
- She fled the house moments before losing consciousness, later learning that the CO levels inside were dangerously high
A single mother in Springfield, Mo., credits her intuition for saving her life after a terrifying brush with carbon monoxide poisoning during a citywide power outage.
Mallory Brooks, whose harrowing story has gone viral in a TikTok video, says she’s still processing the shock of how close her family came to tragedy after storms left her home in the dark for nearly five days.
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