Terrible misfortune in North Rhine-Westphalia: A young mother tried to heat her apartment with coal. As a result, her family has been poisoned, the children and mother are in the hospital.
Wuppertal – A young mother put her family’s life in danger by trying to heat the apartment with the help of a firelighter. According to police, the 29-year-old mother and her three children, two 11-year-olds and a one-year-old boy, breathed in carbon monoxide and were hospitalized for poisoning. The accident occurred on New Year’s Eve in Wuppertal.
Young mother wants to keep warm with coal – children (11, 11 and 1) poisoned
As a result, the woman had lit the coal inside the apartment with the fireplace lighter. Shortly thereafter, family members felt very uncomfortable, she said. Firefighters evacuated the entire apartment building, neighbors were temporarily placed on a bus.
A firelighter is a metal tube that can be used to ignite charcoal or briquettes and use it for grilling. This should never be done indoors, always outdoors. – lw
