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Abigail Nicholson & Hannah Mackenzie Wood

Hero gas worker pulled man from his home after he started 'slurring his words'

A hero gas engineer carried two people from separate houses in the space of a few days after deadly carbon monoxide almost killed them. Dan Howard pulled the seriously ill residents from their Merseyside homes just 48 hours apart, the Liverpool Echo reports.

The 30-year-old was called to the first incident at an upstairs flat in Liverpool City Centre, after a man was reading through a leaflet and realised he had some symptoms of carbon monoxide poisoning. Dan, who has worked for Cadent for nine years, said: "When I arrived, I turned the gas off and completed all my checks.

"The customer was upstairs, in a front room, slurring his words and very lethargic. It didn’t look good.

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