Cat alerts Holly Springs family about carbon monoxide, 3 hospitalized

HOLLY SPRINGS, North Carolina (WTVD) -- A family's cat is being called a hero after a mother and two kids in Holly Springs were rushed to the hospital early Wednesday morning.

Paramedics were called to the family's home on Sarrucca Court, off Piney Grove-Wilbon Road about carbon monoxide poisoning.
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The town fire chief reported the woman and two kids were taken to the hospital. Their conditions are unknown at this time.

ABC11 has learned that the family left a car running in the garage overnight, and it was the cat who woke them up.
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"My daughter woke us up and said the cat is making funny noises and then she passed out," the woman's husband said.