45 firefighters were mobilized on Tuesday January 3 at 9 p.m. in the Montagne Verte district, located in the southwest of the city of Strasbourg, the Bas-Rhin firefighters told
Le Figaro
.
On site, 75 people were treated for carbon monoxide poisoning.
Of these 75 people, 14 were transported by emergency services in relative emergency.
The intoxication would have been caused by the malfunction of the building's boiler powered by city gas.
Carbon monoxide is an odorless and colorless gas.
It is difficult to detect in the event of a leak.
Its toxicity causes a hundred deaths each year across France.
Thursday, December 29, a two-year-old girl was killed and her mother seriously injured by carbon monoxide poisoning in Gueugnon (Saône-et-Loire).
