Do Australian Lives Matter?
Two families this week, one in Adelaide and one in Sydney, tried to heat their homes with charcoal barbecues. Thankfully no one died.
Four more people are rushed to hospital after burning COALS inside their home as the price of electricity soars
Sam McPhee, DailyMail Australia
A second Australian household have been rushed to hospital with carbon monoxide poisoning after attempting to warm their house with a charcoal burner – laying bare the reality of the country’s ongoing energy crisis.
Emergency services attended a home in Adelaide‘s Bedford Park on Friday morning after four people woke up feeling faint and suffering from nosebleeds. They had been attempting to warm their home overnight using a cooker. All four showed signs of carbon monoxide poisoning.
It comes after a family of six from Sydney’s west were also hospitalised this week after using a burner to warm their granny flat.
His father said it was a response to rising gas prices in Australia.
Energy poverty can be deadly.
Four people “lucky to be alive” after indoor fire leaches carbon monoxide
Twenty South Australians have been admitted to hospital with carbon monoxide poisoning caused by unventilated heating in the past year.
The MFS has revealed that as well as the latest case, two people were taken to hospital last week.
“We are seeing a spate of people bringing outdoor heaters into the home, and burning heat beads, charcoal, and wood in unventilated rooms,” he said. “It is a combination of a very cold winter and the higher cost of electricity and gas (causing people to do this).
How can this be? South Australia has all that clean renewable energy …
h/t OldOzzie