A carbon monoxide incident closed an annex at Baltimore City's Main Post Office Monday and sent two people to University of Maryland Shock Trauma Center. Fire crews responded at about 8:30 a.m. to the one-story annex at Colvin and Lexington streets, near the main building in the 900 block of East Fayette Street. They found…
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Eight people taken to area hospitals A carbon monoxide incident has closed an annex at Baltimore City's Main Post Office and sent at least eight people to area hospitals. Fire crews responded shortly before 9 a.m. to the building in the heart of downtown. Emergency personnel were evaluating about 60 people at the scene and…