NORTHERN BRUCE PENINSULA, ONT.—Ontario Provincial Police say suspected carbon monoxide poisoning symptoms among a group of vacationers last weekend turned out to be the effects of consuming too many marijuana brownies. Provincial police Const. Adam Belanger says officers were called to a cottage in Northern Bruce Peninsula, Ont., early on Saturday morning after a number of people renting the home reported feeling sick for unknown reasons. 
 
 OPP Const. Adam Belanger said the vacationers' symptoms initially suggested there might have been a carbon monoxide leak in the cottage, but testing from the fire department quashed that theory. Belanger said officers then learned that one of the vacationers had baked a pot-laced “brownie cake.” ( Rick Madonik / Toronto Star file photo ) 
 
 He says the symptoms initially suggested there might have been a carbon monoxide leak in the cottage, but testing from the fire department quashed that theory. Belanger says officers then learned that one of the vacationers had baked a pot-laced “brownie cake.” Of the 10 people renting the cottage, he says only those who indulged in the dessert were feeling sick. 
 
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 Police did not lay any charges. “This is the first incident that we’ve had up on the Bruce Peninsula, but with the legalization of marijuana coming up, it could possibly be something that we run into more often,” Belanger said. 
 
 Read more about: ||||| HUNTINGTON STATION, N.Y. (AP) — A 55-year-old restaurant manager died and more than two dozen others were taken to hospitals Saturday after being overcome by carbon monoxide at a restaurant at a New York mall, police said. 
 
 Fire personnel respond to a possible case of carbon monoxide poisoning at the Legal Seafoods at the Walt Whitman Mall in Huntington, Saturday, Feb. 22, 2014. Police say a 55-year-old restaurant manager... (Associated Press) 
 
 First responders stand outside Panera Bread's store at the Walt Whitman Mall in Huntington Long Island, New York late Saturday Feb. 22, 2014. Police say a 55-year-old restaurant manager has died and more... (Associated Press) 
 
 Police, EMT, and fire personnel respond to a possible case of carbon monoxide poisoning at the Legal Seafoods at the Walt Whitman Mall in Huntington, Saturday, Feb. 22, 2014. Police say a 55-year-old... (Associated Press) 
 
 Suffolk County police identified the man who died as Steven Nelson, a manager at the Legal Sea Foods restaurant at the Walt Whitman Shops in Huntington Station on Long Island. The restaurant is located in a detached building that is part of the mall, which remained open. 
 
 Police said 27 others affected by carbon monoxide were taken to area hospitals. WABC-TV reported that all but a handful of patients had been treated and released. 
 
 Four ambulance personnel and three officers were among those overcome by carbon monoxide at the complex, which is about 35 miles east of New York City, police said. They responded to a call shortly after 6 p.m. 
 
 Police Lt. Jack Fitzpatrick said the initial call was about a woman who had fallen in the basement of the Legal Sea Foods outlet. 
 
 He said that when rescue workers arrived at the scene they started to feel lightheaded and nauseated and suspected a carbon monoxide leak. 
 
 The woman who fell was taken to Huntington Hospital, as was Nelson, who was pronounced dead there. There was no immediate word on the woman's condition. 
 
 Fitzpatrick said all of those affected by the fumes were restaurant employees, police or ambulance workers. He said the leak appeared to originate with the heating system. 
 
 "Right now, we are inspecting the heating system, and this incident seems to be confined to the basement area. It does not appear to have made it in the area of the restaurant where the customers were," he said. 
 
 Carbon monoxide is odorless and colorless and can lead to death by suffocation. 
 
 The Legal Sea Foods restaurant, and two others, Panera and a Cheesecake Factory outlet, were evacuated as a precaution. 
 
 "They told us to leave because of a gas leak," Cheesecake Factory patron Kathy Sella said. "I didn't want to blow up or anything like that. We were at the bar having a glass of wine and then, one of the waitresses, she said you have to leave." 
 
 The Walt Whitman Shops consists of more than 80 stores, including anchors Bloomingdale's, Lord & Taylor, Macy's and Saks Fifth Avenue.
– It's a rare but not unheard of tragedy: succumbing to carbon monoxide poisoning in a vacation rental. Canadian police feared that situation was on the brink of repeating itself in Northern Bruce Peninsula, Ontario, early Saturday. They were called to a cottage by 10 vacationers, some of whom had started to mysteriously feel unwell. But testing soon showed there was no carbon monoxide issues. Then the real culprit emerged: a brownie cake made with pot that some of the group had partaken in. The Toronto Star reports no charges were filed. (Some Canadian cops recently allegedly partook in marijuana as well, with unfortunate results.)