Near-death experience: How a $20 device averted a downtown tragedy

Near-death experience: How a $20 device averted a downtown tragedy

It was just after 5 o'clock one March morning when a shrill beeping sounded in Cathryn Stauffer's apartment. Located above a trendy wine bar on the Downtown Mall, the apartment is the kind popular among 20-somethings for its proximity to dining, live music, and shopping; it wasn't supposed to be the site of a calamity that could have killed as many as eleven young downtowners.

Stauffer, a dietician at UVA Medical Center, awakened and quickly determined the source of the racket: a detector she'd purchased just a year earlier.

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