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.
Trying to stay warm by running a car?
That’s weird.
I can imagine murder/suicide more likely.
Cui bono.
Time to get out of Dodge.
Odd that there were five but only one trying to get warm in the car.
One of the women who worked with my wife had a husband who was unemployed. A hurricane hit the Carolinas so the husband and a friend drove down in a camper looking for carpentry work. They both died when the space heater they were using to keep warm filled the camper with carbon monoxide.
Illegal aliens from Guatemala, living in Kansas. Blame Joe Biden.
No kidding! Ridiculous story.
Was it a Dodge?
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Well, that's a pretty stupid army Obama is bring into our country...
Wonder why the house had no heat?
This is going to happen more and more as heating fuel and electric bills skyrocket. Fits real well into the population reduction agenda.
Probably couldn’t pay the bill. This is going to start happening a lot soon.
We’ll be OK. That charcoal grill really knocks the chill off a place in a hurry.
It gets very cold in North America, you won't survive.
Stay home.
My great aunt relayed a story to me a few years ago about her brother and brother in law throwing a tire in the stove when she was a child. That would have been the early 1930s. It smoked the house real good she said.
Wonder what percentage of homes in Guatemala have thermostats?
You realize, of course, that this only further confuses the issue of a poisonous gas versus a non-poisonous gas with similar terminology. Carbon monoxide is a colorless, odorless gas (at least, human olfactory sense cannot detect it), chemically very similar to carbon dioxide, but with one less oxygen atom in its composition. It has been incredibly easy to confuse the characteristics of the two similar compounds, but there is couple of major differences - carbon monoxide will CONTINUE to burn in the presence of oxygen, while carbon dioxide extinguishes oxygen-fed fires. Carbon monoxide, in contrast, extinguishes life, by snatching away vital oxygen from the cells of living tissue, while carbon dioxide is the very basis of all life, and is the more stable of the two compounds.
It’s coming. Pretty bad when everyone is slowly being forced out into the the backyard and a fire pit for basic primitive survival.
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