Published: Thursday, February 5, 2009 12:01 AM CST
Associated PressTwenty-seven deaths have been attributed to storm-related causes around Kentucky, with details and dates where available:--
Jefferson County: 4 -- a 55-year-old man on Jan. 31 from carbon monoxide from a charcoal grill, a 63-year-old man, 54-year-old woman and a 46-year-old woman on Jan. 30 from carbon monoxide from a generator
Webster County: 4 -- 2 men heart attacks, one while moving broken branches; another while a person was shoveling snow on Jan. 31; 1 man on Jan. 27 from carbon monoxide in a running vehicle; 1 where an ambulance couldn't reach victim
Calloway County: 1 -- a man died of hypothermia
Carter County: 3 -- a 4-year-old boy on Jan. 29 from a vehicle wreck, a man on Jan. 30 in a vehicle wreck, an 88-year-old man on Jan. 27 of hypothermia after being found in an unheated house
Harrison County: 2 -- a 64-year-old man and a 62-year-old woman on Jan. 29 from carbon monoxide from a generator
Johnson County: 2 -- an oxygen-dependent person's home lost power, and a person had a heart attack while cutting tree limbs
Barren County: 1 -- a 93-year-old woman on Jan. 30 burned while huddled near a space heater-
Boyd County: 1 -- a 62-year-old woman on Jan. 27 from hypothermia after wandering away from her house
Christian County: 1 -- a 76-year-old man on Jan. 29 from carbon monoxide from a generator--
Graves County: 1 -- a 26-year-old man on Feb. 1 from carbon monoxide from a generator--
Hardin County: 1 -- a 74-year-old woman on Jan. 30 from hypothermia after being found in a trailer with no heat
Hopkins County: 1 -- an 85-year-old man on Jan. 28 of hypothermia after being found in home with no heat
Nelson County: 1 -- an 87-year-old woman on Jan. 28 who fell while carrying a space heater--
Ohio County: 1 -- a woman died when an ambulance couldn't get to house
Owen County: 1 -- a 47-year-old man on Jan. 29 of carbon monoxide from a faulty space heater
Trigg County: 1 -- a 53-year-old man on Jan. 30 after a fire from an alternate heat source--
Wayne County: 1 -- a 37-year-old woman on Jan. 28 from drowning and hypothermia after her car slid into water
Source: The Kentucky Justice and Public Safety Cabinet
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