Was it lit out of ignorance of the danger or out of economic necessity?
The answer is not known at this stage but the lighting of a brazier installed in a pavilion of Garges-lès-Gonesse (Val-d'Oise) is undoubtedly at the origin of the hospitalization in the middle of the night of a whole family.
Three people were seriously poisoned.
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A one-storey pavilion on avenue Frédéric-Joliot-Curie: this is where the emergency services were dispatched at 3:30 am, on the night of Monday to Tuesday to come to the aid of an entire family in the grip of discomfort.
When they arrived on the scene, they discovered the presence of a brazier installed in the apartment as a heater.
A device that releases a lot of carbon monoxide and which is absolutely to be avoided in homes or even on a balcony.
Three children aged 4 to 14 affected
Two adults, a 50-year-old man and a 40-year-old woman and a 14-year-old teenager, showed all the symptoms of severe monoxide poisoning.
After giving them first aid on the spot, the emergency services transported them in absolute urgency to the Raymond-Poincaré hospital, in Garches, in the Hauts-de-Seine.
It is an establishment specializing in the treatment of carbon monoxide poisoning and which has a hyperbaric chamber for this purpose.
Two young children, aged 6 and 4, more slightly affected, were taken to the Gonesse hospital center in relative urgency.
Despite the danger of lighting a brazier in a home, this type of accident occurs regularly.
At the end of September, an almost identical scenario had occurred in Ermont, where an entire family of 7 people had been hospitalized.
Val-d'Oise firefighters intervene on average a hundred times a year to rescue victims of carbon monoxide poisoning.
This colorless and odorless asphyxiant gas spreads rapidly in the environment and can be fatal in less than an hour in high concentrations.
It is produced in particular by heating appliances that malfunction or are deprived of air.
To prevent any accident, the Sdis 95 invites everyone to have the heating and hot water production installations systematically checked and maintained, never to block the air inlets and outlets and never to use auxiliary heaters continuously. .