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Regina’s fire chief has given an update on the investigation into a fatal carbon monoxide incident in Regina, Sask., on Dec. 19, 2025.
Henry Losco, 11, died and his dad was taken to hospital in critical condition after they were poisoned in their apartment building at 1827 Albert Street.
Regina Fire Chief Layne Jackson has confirmed that the cause of the leak was accidental, and was the result of a critical failure in a boiler.
Regina Fire Chief Layne Jackson confirmed that no foul play caused the accidental leak. (Aliyah Marko-Omene)
The investigation remains ongoing with multiple agencies involved, but Jackson said the examination of the scene is complete. He also said authorities can’t yet confirm the last time the failed boiler was inspected.
Henry Losco’s mom, Marina Hills, told CBC in December that she was devastated by her son’s death.
She’s the one who found him unconscious in his bedroom.
She tried resuscitating Henry, until first responders arrived and took over. She said she was sitting on the floor when someone came over and told her that her son was dead, and they were taking her husband to the hospital.
When the coroner allowed her later that night to return to where her son was, she said she ran to him and started kissing him.
“I just kept telling him how much I loved him. I told him that he needed to wake up. I said, ‘Just wake up. If you just wake up, this is all over and we can leave and we can go home.’”
She used to tell her son, “‘You are loved and cherished every day of your life,’” she said. “Then I would say, ‘Do you know how much I love you?’ And he would say, ‘To the moon and back times a million,’ and I said, ‘Yep.’
“He was my best friend.”
Early investigation pointed to service equipment
Shortly after the fatal incident, Jackson confirmed that there was “mechanical work being done in the building on some service equipment” at the time of the leak.
“That piece of service equipment was indeed identified as the source of the carbon monoxide release,” Jackson said.
At the time, he said multiple agencies were investigating, including the fire department, police, the Technical Safety Authority of Saskatchewan and the Saskatchewan Coroners Service.
Carbon monoxide is a colourless, odourless gas that can be deadly, especially if undetected.