Careless handling of gas heating equipment for two people in a building on Bauska Street ended with going to the hospital. Sewage gas sneaked into the breath of the apartment’s residents unnoticed. Neighbors managed to save themselves and not feel the severe consequences – they managed to be warned by the service specialists who arrived. Taking into account that the steam gas had spread to several places in the building, a decision was made to evacuate and ventilation was carried out.
According to the emergency service specialist, the gas supply to the entire house has been cut off for safety reasons. The operator must now carry out a flue and ventilation inspection.
The silent death, i.e. the leakage of stank gas, leaves lasting consequences not only in house chimneys and heating boilers, but can seriously damage people’s health, both in the short and long term. In more severe cases of poisoning, damage to the brain can occur, causing irreversible changes in the body. In case of septic poisoning, every minute is crucial.
Roberts Stašinskis, anesthesiologist-reanimatologist of the RAKUS Intensive Care Clinic, states that in most cases these symptoms may not be noticed. It is general weakness, fatigue, fainting feeling. If the concentration is high, then you can be fatally poisoned by stove gas within 10 minutes.
The causes of such accidents tend to be different, but mainly, they are related to disturbed air exchange in the ventilation equipment.
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