"Family files lawsuit in Boone hotel carbon monoxide deaths"

Heaters may fail to function from time to time, CO&CO2 detector should be equipped in every hotel to prevent these tragedies.

Family files lawsuit in Boone hotel carbon monoxide deaths

Richard DeVayne, WCNC1:30 p.m. EST February 10, 2015

BOONE, N.C. -- The family of a couple killed by carbon monoxide in a Boone hotel room filed a lawsuit against Best Western International on Tuesday.

The lawsuit outlines a series of equipment failures and human errors that directly created the conditions, which caused Daryl and Shirley Jenkins' deaths.

Jeffrey Williams, 11, was killed in the same room about a month after the couple. His mother was seriously hurt.

"We want to make sure another family does not have to go through the same thing we're going through," said Doug Jenkins, who held a portable carbon Monoixe detector. "These things cost, what? $15 we don't go anywhere, stay anywhere without one of these."

Jenkins said he purchased the portable devices for each member of his family after his parents' death.

As a result of each death, Best Western added carbon monoxide detectors to most rooms in their chain. But the lawsuit claims that the hotel chain should have taken this action beforehand.

Daryl and Shirley Jenkins were vacationing in Boone and staying in a hotel room located above the equipment room for the indoor heated pool at the Best Western Plus Blue Ridge Plaza.

According to the lawsuit, deficiencies in the pool heater and its exhaust ventilation system resulted in deadly carbon monoxide filling the Jenkins' hotel room. The suit also names the heating company which worked on the system and hotel management.

Kris Hauschildt, the Jenkins' daughter, said: "Our parents, I'm sure had no idea that those room were not equipped with carbon monoxide detectors."

Hauschildt added that her mother worked at a natural gas company and was familiar with carbon monoxide

"Had she known that they were not required detectors in hotel rooms they would have carried their own," Hauschildt said.

The Jenkins' adult children made a public announcement about the lawsuit and addressed the media on Tuesday morning. The family also advocated their call for carbon monoxide detectors to be installed in hotels throughout the country.

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