MENOMONIE, Wis. -- Authorities say three Wisconsin college students who died in a house fire in April had blood-alcohol levels from two to almost four times the legal limit in drunken driving cases.
Dunn County Medical Examiner Chris Kruse released toxicology test results Tuesday. He says the deaths of the three University of Wisconsin-Stout students have been ruled accidental.
According to the tests, carbon monoxide poisoning killed 20-year-old Amanda Rief of Chaska, Minn., 21-year-old April Englund of West St. Paul, Minn., and 23-year-old Scott Hams of Hayward.
Kruse says the blood-alcohol levels were 0.305 percent for Rief, 0.210 percent for Englund and 0.173 percent for Hams. The legal limit in Wisconsin is 0.08 percent.
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