three dead in 24 hours in toulouse
A couple and a forty-year-old have been discovered dead in recent hours in Toulouse and its surroundings, probably the victim of poisoning linked to heating.
While winter has taken up residence in Toulouse for a few days, the risks associated with carbon monoxide poisoning are increasing. Thus, these are three deaths that the emergency services have had to deplore in the last 24 hours in Toulouse.
The first tragedy took place in the north of the city, where a couple in their forties of Bulgarian origin, living in a squatted house, were discovered by relatives on Monday evening December 12. In one of the rooms caulked by the two victims, the firefighters discovered the couple lying on the bed, an extinguished barbecue nearby, indicating the police services
This morning, a 48-year-old man was discovered at his home in Villeneuve-Tolosane, lying on the ground, there too, a brazier extinguished nearby, reports the Dépêche du Midi.
Autopsies will be performed to determine with certainty the causes of death. However, the presence of extinguished embers as well as the absence of ventilation leave perhaps no doubt about the responsibility of carbon monoxide in these accidents.
This “silent killer”, as Christophe Ghiani, the head of the SDIS 31 intervention group, describes it, is “dreadful”. Tasteless and odorless, this gas diffuses into the air without being able to identify it.
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Each year, the firefighters of Haute-Garonne carry out around 150 interventions of this type. A figure that could increase in the face of the combination of falling temperatures and rising energy prices. The most precarious households could thus turn to alternative but more dangerous means of heating.