Family with children aged 1 and 3 years old poisoned by carbon monoxide in Lucca

A family of four residing in Ponte a Moriano, in the province of Lucca, was transported to hospital due to carbon monoxide poisoning. The alarm came around 3 o'clock last night, when the first illnesses were noticed by the father, mother and two small children aged one and three years old. The 118 emergency services and firefighters intervened on site.

The family in hospital

After the intervention of the rescuers, the first to be transported to the hospital in Lucca, as he was in more critical conditions, was the father of the family, a 30-year-old man. Subsequently, having assessed the presence of carbon monoxide inside the house, the man's wife and two children were also transported to hospital. After evaluating the four in the emergency room, the doctors decided to transfer the entire family to the Santa Chiara hospital in Pisa where the patients underwent treatment in a hyperbaric chamber. The firefighters, who intervened together with the health workers, are working to establish the causes of the fumes.

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