Two small children were poisoned with carbon monoxide in Kazan. We remind you simple safety rules.
On November 16, at 21.42, the unified emergency call number 112 a message received, that in the apartment of an apartment building on Lipatov street in the Sovetsky district of Kazan, two boys born in 2019 and 2015 were previously poisoned with moderate carbon monoxide.doctors and gas service specialists went to the scene. Injured children hospitalized in the children's Republican clinical hospital. The cause of the incident is being determined.
Main Department of EMERCOM of Russia on RT warns: the most common sources of carbon monoxide are faulty gas, oil, wood stove, other gas appliances, hot water heaters, and in the engines of vehicles producing exhaust gases. Cracks in stoves, clogged chimneys, blocked by foreign objects or due to lack of wind protection, as well as insufficient ventilation can cause carbon monoxide to reach residential areas.
Insufficient access to fresh air can also contribute to the accumulation of carbon monoxide in the room.
To avoid the possibility of carbon monoxide escaping into the room, it is necessary to ensure the supply of fresh air to gas, solid fuel and liquid fuel heating devices-boilers, stoves, etc.