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4 children die in Texas gas poisoning; others injured
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Posted on 01/02/2017 6:30:17 PM PST by BenLurkin

- A poisonous gas believed to have been released when someone tried to wash away a pesticide that had been sprayed under a Texas home killed four children and left six other people hospitalized, officials said Monday.

Phosphine gas was likely released when water mixed with the pest control chemical, Amarillo fire officials said. A specific cause of death had not been released for the four children Monday afternoon. The other six people who were in the home are "not out of the woods yet," fire officials said.

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Davis told the Amarillo Globe-News he wasn't sure how long the residents had been exposed to the phosphine gas before a visitor arrived Monday and found everyone sick and called 911. Phosphine gas can cause respiratory failure and in severe cases can cause a pulmonary edema, which fills the lungs full of fluid, he said.

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1 posted on 01/02/2017 6:30:17 PM PST by BenLurkin
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To: BenLurkin

Horror. Basic rule is to never use this pesticide near or under a dwelling.


2 posted on 01/02/2017 6:39:35 PM PST by NautiNurse (Tear down the Mexican Carrier plant and use the materials to build the wall)
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To: BenLurkin

Phosphine gas is both poisonous and flammable.


3 posted on 01/02/2017 6:40:38 PM PST by umgud (ban all infidelaphobics)
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To: BenLurkin

Heard this story on Fox on my way home from work this evening. Heart breaking.

Who sprayed the pesticide?

Were there any warning signs?

Story is pretty thin on facts.


4 posted on 01/02/2017 6:42:06 PM PST by ButThreeLeftsDo (Merry Christmas!)
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To: BenLurkin

What pesticide releases phosphine gas in contact with water?


5 posted on 01/02/2017 6:58:55 PM PST by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy)
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To: BenLurkin

What is the poison gas that results from mixing ammonia with bleach?


6 posted on 01/02/2017 7:01:36 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: BenLurkin
So sad, this same thing happened in California a few years ago witch prompted the federal EPA to impose strict usage guidelines for Aluminum and Zinc phosphide. Both are used as fumigants for insect control in storage grains and other ag seed commodities and for burrowing rodent control. It is dispensed in pellet or tablet form. The pellet/tablets are activated by ambient moisture and release pH3 (phosphine gas) over a period of days depending on the amount of moisture and how warm the temperature is. This pesticide is not applied as a spray. By attempting to wash the pesticide away from under the structure clearly caused the hastened release of the lethal concentration of phosphine gas. There is a minimum of 72 hour restriction to reenter the treatment sites. It is illegal in the US to use this pesticide within 100 feet of an occupied dwelling. Somebody is in deep do do.
7 posted on 01/02/2017 7:04:55 PM PST by drypowder
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

chlorine gas


8 posted on 01/02/2017 7:05:48 PM PST by reed13k
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Chlorine.


9 posted on 01/02/2017 7:05:58 PM PST by Axenolith (Government blows, and that which governs least, blows least...)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
2ndDivisionVet :" What is the poison gas that results from mixing ammonia with bleach?"

Chlorine gas is bleach and ammonia mixed.
Effective in WW1 against trench warfare: styes close to the ground, and fills the trench.

10 posted on 01/02/2017 7:08:15 PM PST by Tilted Irish Kilt (Muslim & Spanish migrants are like Kudzu-> designed to overload the system= Cloward-Piven)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
ststyes close to the ground = stays close to the ground.
Also , effective for control of rats, mice and voles in a burrow.
11 posted on 01/02/2017 7:10:31 PM PST by Tilted Irish Kilt (Muslim & Spanish migrants are like Kudzu-> designed to overload the system= Cloward-Piven)
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To: drypowder

“Wash it away after it was used under dwelling”?, that strikes me as odd. It’s a proscribed substance and I seriously doubt a licensed contractor would initiate this chain of events. I await news of the residents identity and wonder if someone wasn’t doing some experimenting in preparation for spraying for other than bugs...


12 posted on 01/02/2017 7:13:20 PM PST by Axenolith (Government blows, and that which governs least, blows least...)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
What is the poison gas that results from mixing ammonia with bleach?

Dichloramine.
13 posted on 01/02/2017 7:15:56 PM PST by SpaceBar
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

Possibly the house was being rented and the landlord had the pesticide applied there. Can’t imagine how it was “washed” out. Possibly there were old, faulty connections for plumbing and/or the washer and every time water was used in the house, some leaked into the ground beneath it and mixed with the pesticide. Or maybe recent rains saturated the topsoil and it mixed that way.


14 posted on 01/02/2017 7:46:35 PM PST by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Chlorine gas.

CC


15 posted on 01/02/2017 8:28:13 PM PST by Celtic Conservative (CC: purveyor of cryptic, snarky posts since December, 2000..)
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To: BradyLS

I think it rained there last night.


16 posted on 01/02/2017 9:39:06 PM PST by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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To: from occupied ga
What pesticide releases phosphine gas in contact with water?

Aluminum phosphide.

17 posted on 01/02/2017 10:39:41 PM PST by FoxInSocks ("Hope is not a course of action." -- M. O'Neal, USMC)
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To: FoxInSocks
AlP + 3 H2O → Al(OH)3 + PH3

PH3 is phosphine.

18 posted on 01/02/2017 10:42:39 PM PST by FoxInSocks ("Hope is not a course of action." -- M. O'Neal, USMC)
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To: BenLurkin
Poor Edgar never knew what hit him


19 posted on 01/02/2017 11:55:11 PM PST by montag813
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I forget but that’s just what some kid did near the cooking area when I was 16 and worked at McDonalds.

Didn’t take long to see that that was a BAD idea and we all got the heck out of there.


20 posted on 01/03/2017 1:24:46 AM PST by dp0622 (The only thing an upper crust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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