“Amazing that not one of them suspected something was wrong before they collapsed and passed out. “
I don’t buy it.
His son bought him the generator.
I worked for an insurance company long ago in the claims department. I read a deposition where there was a carbon monoxide leak into the house from the outside water heater. It was installed improperly.
The family was sleeping and only one woke up from nausea and confusion, was not understanding what was going on and trying to get down the hall to throw up, falling as he went.
Someone came over early in the morning when this was going on and after knocking a lot went in and saw this. Helped this one person outside and called the ambulance. The rest of the family, mother, father, kids already had died in their beds.
CO is an odorless colorless gas. People who are sleeping or drunk can die from CO poisoning before they have symptoms.