Two ice storm victims dead in suspected carbon monoxide poisoning

[spaminator]

Two ice storm victims dead in suspected carbon monoxide poisoning
Toronto Sun
First posted: Monday, December 23, 2013 11:08 PM EST | Updated: Monday, December 23, 2013 11:24 PM EST
Two people are dead in Newcastle in a suspected case of carbon monoxide poisoning caused by a generator.
Durham Regional Police say emergency services were called to home Monday about 3:30 p.m. about several people feeling ill. The home had a gas-powered generator running in the attached garage to supply electricity to help heat the home, police say.
A 52-year-old Newcastle man and his 72-year-old mother were rushed to Lakeridge Health Bowmanville where they were pronounced dead.
Police say there was no access to the house from the garage but the carbon monoxide still made its way inside the home. Newcastle had been without power since early Sunday due to the ice storm. Power was restored Monday evening to most of the town east of Toronto.
Two ice storm victims dead in suspected carbon monoxide poisoning | Toronto & GTA | News | Toronto Sun

 

[spaminator]

Ice storm carbon monoxide deaths shock neighbours in Newcastle
By Jenny Yuen ,Toronto Sun
First posted: Monday, December 23, 2013 11:08 PM EST | Updated: Tuesday, December 24, 2013 01:02 PM EST
NEWCASTLE - Neighbours in a quiet residential area of Newcastle are mourning a man who — along with his 72-year-old mother — died of carbon-monoxide poisoning Monday after running a gas-powered generator in the garage.
The generator was attached to the house and used to supply the two-storey home with heat and electricity after a vicious ice storm walloped the GTA and left hundreds of thousands without power, Durham Regional Police said.
Paramedics arrived at a home on Andrew St., near Hwy. 2 around 3:30 p.m. and took “several inhabitants who were feeling ill” to a Bowmanville hospital, but pronounced the 52-year-old man and his mother dead later on.
Police have not released the identity of either victims, but a neighbour who has known the family for five years identified the Newcastle man as Randy Hancock.
“I always saw his wife, Trish, taking walks and in the summer, I’d see them riding motorbikes together,” Marina Di Lisi, 51, said Tuesday. “They just celebrated their 25th anniversary last year. I’m shocked. I think the whole neighbourhood is shocked and saddened.”
Di Lisi said Hancock’s mother was visiting for the holidays. The couple has two sons in their late teens or early 20s, one of whom still lives at home, she said. She saw the whole family being transported to hospital.
“Trish is a homemaker and has been on disability for a few years,” Di Lisi said. “She was transferred to St. Michael’s Hospital last night. It’s just really sad because if they had waited — the power came back on four hours later, around 9 p.m.”
Di Lisi said Hancock’s mother was the first to feel sick from the carbon monoxide and she went to lay down.
“Randy slept at the bottom of her bed just to keep her company,” she said.
No one answered the family’s door on Christmas Eve day.
A maple tree, its branches hanging heavy with ice, stood in the Hancock family’s front yard. A silver Chevrolet Malibu and a red Jeep remained parked in the driveway. The yellow generator was visible near the front steps of the house.
“They’re never going to have a normal Christmas again,” Di Lisi said. “It’s heart-wrenching. I knew they had a generator because their outside light was on, but I never thought it would be an issue.”
Police are warning people that running a barbecue or similar devices indoors can lead to carbon monoxide poisoning.
A generator is seen outside a Newcastle home Tuesday, Dec. 24, 2013, after an elderly woman and her son died from carbon monoxide poisoning during the power outage Monday. (Dave Thomas/Toronto Sun)

Ice storm carbon monoxide deaths shock neighbours in Newcastle | Toronto & GTA | News | Toronto Sun

 

[Sal]

That's a shame.

 

[shadowshiv]

Fellow CCers, please purchase a Carbon Monoxide Detector! Even if the power goes out, you can get ones with a battery backup. Who knows? It could save your life!

 

[SLM]

Sometimes in the morning before work I watch tv, often I catch one of Mike Holmes shows and if it's not every episode then it's every other episode where they're redoing the interior of the garages of new homes because of all the holes leaking carbon monoxide into the home. I'd be leery of starting a car in a garage let alone running a generator.

Such a shame these people lost their lives when they were just trying to stay warm.

 

[karrie]

Sometimes in the morning before work I watch tv, often I catch one of Mike Holmes shows and if it's not every episode then it's every other episode where they're redoing the interior of the garages of new homes because of all the holes leaking carbon monoxide into the home. I'd be leery of starting a car in a garage let alone running a generator.

Such a shame these people lost their lives when they were just trying to stay warm.

presumably you shouldn't need to run your car in your garage long enough to gas your house, because it's warm and snow free. The short span you might run a car, does not compare to a day of running a generator. People don't give it appropriate thought. It's an honest mistake, but a horrible one.

Fellow CCers, please purchase a Carbon Monoxide Detector! Even if the power goes out, you can get ones with a battery backup. Who knows? It could save your life!

I have one. Hubby's company lost an employee to a faulty furnace, so they sent out CO detectors to everyone.




But, while I use one, I feel we become too reliant on gadgets to do our thinking for us.

Incidentally, I know it's not the same thing, but where I live the fire department is now issuing advisories that they've had a plethora of CO call outs, due to the large amount of snow blocking off vent stacks on roof tops. They're encouraging residents to safely ensure that their stacks are clear, and to shovel their rooves if possible, as there have been some collapses.

 

[Sal]

Carbon Monoxide Nightmare (2004)

One morning last summer, a man in a hurry to get to work after his car wouldn't start used cables to jump-start his engine alongside a second car in his garage. A few hours passed before he began to wonder why his wife hadn't made her usual midday call. That evening he came home to a heartbreaking scene: He'd inadvertently left the other car running in the garage. The running car had filled the house with deadly fumes that claimed the lives of his beloved wife and their two dogs.

The day that man sat across from me (Oprah) on the show, his pain was palpable. I knew viewers around the world would be able to sense his agony right through their television sets. There's only one reason to air a show like that: so that those watching can respond to the nudge they've been feeling to finally install a carbon monoxide detector.

Read more: Oprah's Top 20 Moments - Oprah.com

 

[lone wolf]

I wonder what sort of meyhem will arise when all that ice starts falling from skyscrapers

 

[Sal]

I wonder what sort of meyhem will arise when all that ice starts falling from skyscrapers

lawsuit-mayhem if anyone dies or is severely injured

 

[eh1eh]

Two adults and two young children have been taken to hospital to be treated for carbon monoxide poisoning after burning charcoal to try and stay warm in their powerless apartment.
Paramedics were called to an apartment in the Markham Road and Lawrence Avenue East area shortly after 6 a.m. where they found a man, a woman and two children aged two and three vomiting and feeling lethargic.
The man told police he had been burning charcoal to try and keep the family warm through the power outage.

Read more: Two adults and two small kids taken to hospital after trying to heat apartment with charcoal | CP24.com
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Didn't die.

 

[Sal]

Didn't die.

lucky christmas for them