What killed Lluvia? Investigators wear hazmat suits to search the Colorado home of 6-year-old girl who died suddenly after a mystery outbreak

 

Mystery: Longmont Police don protective clothing to investigate the home of six-year-old Lluvia Espinoza Morales who died suddenly from an illness on Tuesday morning

 

By Lydia Warren

Mail Online

PUBLISHED: 15:45 EST, 20 February 2013 | UPDATED: 15:59 EST, 20 February 2013

Investigators have worn hazmat suits to search the home of a six-year-old girl who died suddenly from a mystery illness.

Lluvia Espinoza Morales was taken to hospital at 9 a.m. on Tuesday and was pronounced dead, sparking the thorough investigation of her home in Longmont, Colorado.

Neighbours watched as four officers donned thick suits and breathing respirators to enter the home before emerging at around 4p.m. to be washed down.

Investigators said there were no signs of foul play. They also failed to find anything abnormal in air samples and have ruled out carbon monoxide or a gas leak, the Denver Channel reported

Mystery: Longmont Police don protective clothing to investigate the home of six-year-old Lluvia Espinoza Morales who died suddenly from an illness on Tuesday morning

‘We don’t know the cause,’ Cmdr. Tim Lewis with Longmont police told CBS Denver. ‘The initial investigation is not showing us anything suspicious.

‘It could be the flu or it could be something pre-existing. But to send our people into an unknown environment and possibly expose them to that would have been irresponsible on our part.

“It seems almost overkill, but it’s the only sure way of not cutting corners and if you cut corners, then you get somebody exposed and you really don’t want to have that happen.’

He added that the families of officers struggle enough by being connected to their work, and they did not want to endanger them by passing on a possible virus.

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Longmont girl’s death prompts Hazmat response

10:03 PM, Feb 18, 2013

9News.com

LONGMONT – Longmont police, donning Hazmat gear, were investigating the death of a 6-year-old girl who died Monday morning.

Pollice say the girl, identified as Lluvia Espinoza Morales, went to the hospital with flu-like symptoms.

Longmont Police Commander Jeff Satur said investigators sealed one unit of a four-plex apartment in the 700 block of Darby Court where Morales lived.

Crews cleared the scene around 4 p.m. after investigators failed to find anything abnormal in air samples taken from inside. Investigators have ruled out carbon monoxide or a gas leak as a factor.

Satur said there there was no danger to the public.

 

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