Carbon monoxide detected at Hewgley Terrace, residents evacuated

Residents at the Hewgley Terrace apartment building in Tulsa are evacuated after a carbon monoxide detector alarm goes off early Thursday.

The Tulsa Fire Department tells us a carbon monoxide detector showed high levels of the poisonous gas in the air on one of the floors of the building near 400 South Lawton Avenue at 3:25 a.m.

Electric fans were used to disperse the gas from the building.

Firemen requested that the Red Cross respond to the scene with a canteen to assist 30-40 residents who had been evacuated to the outdoors.

No one was injured.