Thirteen people poisoned by carbon monoxide at a wedding

No less than thirteen people out of the 43 guests at a wedding ended the day in the hospital on Saturday evening in Talmont-Saint-Hilaire, in Vendée. The guests began to feel bad, others to pass out, from the start of the evening, reports West France. The cause: a gas heater used after a heating failure in a private reception room. Results, 13 people, including a pregnant woman, were poisoned by carbon monoxide.

They were taken care of by the firefighters who intervened shortly after 10:30 p.m., the time at which the alert was triggered. They were evacuated under oxygen and transported to the hospitals of La Roche-sur-Yon and Sables-d’Olonne. Among these intoxicated guests is a pregnant woman. This gas has the particularity of being odorless, colorless and non-irritating, recalls The Parisian. It is therefore undetectable, hence its dangerousness.

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