30 NoraThe scenario Forbes outlined was terrible.
Nora shuddered at the picture that formed in her mind.
Shoving it aside, she focused on a different question.
“Could carbon monoxide have seeped into the living room, too?”
“Certainly. I’m sure it filled that space above the ceiling from one end of the trailer to the other.”
“Would the little girl’s mother have breathed it in?” Nora asked.
“She undoubtedly inhaled a great deal,” Forbes said. “Did medical personnel on the scene or at the hospital give her oxygen?”
“You mean did they hook her up to an oxygen tank?”
“A tank or some other source,” he clarified. “The standard treatment for carbon monoxide poisoning is one-hundred-percent-oxygen therapy.”
“I don’t know if she was treated with oxygen,” Nora admitted.
“I recommend you obt
