Posted on 10/27/2021 5:05:56 AM PDT by eccentric
Five people are fighting for their lives after being poisoned by carbon monoxide while trying to stay warm, according to the Dodge City Police Department.
Dodge City Police Officers were dispatched shortly after 4 a.m. Monday to the 100 block of 16th Ave in Dodge City. The call they were responding to reported dead people inside a house.
Once at the scene, officers say they were able to see two people slumped over in a living room through a window. The officers went inside the house and noticed the two people inside were breathing very shallow.
Officers reported smelling the “familiar odor of thick vehicle exhaust” in the air as soon as they opened a door to the home. As officers were grabbing the two people, they saw a third. They brought the two people outside and while retrieving the third, they noticed the door from the house to the garage was open and saw another person in a car parked in the closed-off attached garage.
While bringing out the third person, the Dodge City Fire Department arrived on scene. Officers were able to tell firefighters that there was still a person inside. DCFD firefighters wearing breathing apparatus’ then entered the house and opened the garage door. Police officers entered and recovered the fourth person from the vehicle.
Firefighters searched the remaining rooms in the house and found a fifth person in another bedroom that they were able to carry outside.
Ford County Fire and EMS arrived on the scene and transferred the five victims by ambulance to Western Plains Medical Complex. From there, they were flown out to multiple locations.
According to the DCPD, all five people were still alive at the time of removing them from the home, but an updated prognosis is not good.
An investigation is ongoing.
“At this time, this appears to be a tragic accident caused by one subject running the vehicle inside the closed garage,” said the DCPD in a Facebook post. “The fumes filled the residence through the open interior door and made the others sick to the point of unconsciousness before ever realizing what was happening and why.”
Dodge City police say that one of the people in the home was on the phone with their mother in Guatemala when they passed out. Police report that their mother tried for over two hours to get help from friends in Dodge City before reaching out to the friend who originally found them and called police.
It is understood by DCPD that the victims are adult males, four of them are brothers and the fifth is an adult son of one of them.
Dodge in the garage?
This would not have happened in Guatemala. There would not have been a car, a garge, or cold enough weather.
There was phone service but no heat. Priorities, c’mon , man.
I was always amazed and wondered about all the Ethiopians and Somalis who settled in Minneapolis.
Illegal …uh, Latinx. Guatemala mother. Not contacting authorities right away.
I mean, multiples in a home, including adults, no heat, it’s all about being cheap and under the radar. Maybe they didn’t even pay for utilities so there are fewer records.
I’m also wondering if they had no fireplace. Far too many houses today built without FP. Who needs em, right?
No, I doubt this is suicide or murder. Just illegals illegalling.
And why were they trying to stay warm? Global warming!! Where’s Greta?
One could easily argue they are all from the same stupid family! So don’t besmirch all Guatemalans!
Vivamus stultus ignarus mori
Matt Dillon would have run them out of town long ago.
Global warming fail?
It’s only October....
Personal tracking phones need to get smarter as the imported population gets dumber. Cameras are now the size of a dime, so what would it take to add smoke, carbon monoxide, oxygen, alcohol, and other chemical detectors? If the camera and onboard super computer can do spectrometry, it can detect all kinds of things.
You forgot fart detection!
For that three sensors are needed to triangulate the source.
;-)
There was a case in NJ of a guy killing himself in the garage, and when his family tried to get him out they passed out and died from the carbon monoxide. The police are lucky they didn’t pass out.
I remember, years ago, some of dad’s friends died while sleeping in a room with a kerosene heater.
Even to day I will not allow a kerosene heater in the house.
I have also seen two people brain damaged by carbon monoxide poisoning. Both by central heat units that had a leak in the exhaust.
I sleep with a window cracked open about an inch, and have a CO detector, just in case.
Definitely a case for Wyatt Earp.
Many years ago, I was living in a decrepit house with gas wall heaters. The first cold evening one fall, my girlfriend and I lit the heaters and retired. The next morning, we had really bad headaches and generally didn’t feel so good. A technician checked the heaters and found that the one just outside the bedroom door had a cracked manifold. He said we were lucky to wake up, and if the house weren’t so drafty we might not have. I haven’t been a fan of that kind of gas heater ever since.
Let’s not go into the brain-damage issue, if you please.
heating the house wi EXHAUST GAS??? OK...
“Wonder why the house had no heat?”
The house had heat...
It's always the dog under the table.
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