By EMS1 Staff
WHITE OAK, Texas —The husband of an EMT trainee who died Friday from carbon monoxide poisoning is paying tribute to his late wife by sharing his memories of their lives together.
Casey Steenland, 33, and two other responders were found unconscious by colleagues during a shift change at a Champion EMS substation in White Oak, Texas, at around 7 a.m. Friday.
EMT Steenland was pronounced dead after being taken to the hospital, but two other responders sickened have since been released.
“She did live every day to the fullest. She lived, she loved. Everybody loved her. She never met a stranger; she always had a friend she hadn’t met yet,” her husband Jeff Steenland told KLTV.
The carbon monoxide came from a generator left running on an ambulance, investigators believe.
Steenland said his wife had previously responded to calls involving carbon monoxide poisoning.
“When we worked together on the ambulance she did help me pull people out of a house for carbon monoxide poisoning, it’s sad that she had to go that way,” he told the station.
Funeral arrangements are pending. Good Shepherd Medical Center set up a fund in EMT Steenland’s name. Donations can be mailed to Good Shepherd Foundation at 700 East Marshall Avenue, Longview Texas, 75601.
She leaves behind her husband and four children.
Another fund has been set up for EMT Steenland’s children. Donations can be made to Texas Bank and Trust under the account name “Kimberly K. Griffin for benefit of Casey Steenland.”