The Syracuse Academy of Science is admitting what it thought was a combination carbon monoxide/smoke detector unit in the building’s cafeteria was just a smoke detector, in a statement released to NewsChannel 9.

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It might be another day before an autopsy proves what killed a school janitor at the Syracuse Academy of Science High School whose body was found in the midst of a carbon monoxide leak. When the body was discovered by another staff member Tuesday morning,

The discovery of the carbon monoxide was made when emergency crews responded to a report of a body being found in the school's cafeteria.

Five school employees were transported to hospitals with symptoms consistent with mild to moderate exposure to carbon monoxide.

The Syracuse Academy of Science did not have carbon monoxide alarms in the cafeteria where a school employee was found dead and five others were hospitalized due to possible poisoning, an inspection by the Syracuse Fire and Codes Departments found.

Fire officials said a carbon monoxide detector attached to a medical equipment bag alerted crews of the poisonous gas in the air at the charter school.