It's a sad chestnut tree that we see coming back every year, as soon as the temperatures drop and the heating is turned back on.
On Wednesday morning, a man died at his home, poisoned by carbon monoxide, we learned from the Departmental Fire and Rescue Service (SDIS) in the North.
The firefighters intervened shortly before 10 a.m. in a house located rue Jean-Jacques Rousseau, in Dechy, near Douai, in the North.
Inside the home, heated with a coal stove, was an elderly couple.
The victim's wife was rescued
When they arrived at the scene, the emergency services discovered the body of a 72-year-old man, unconscious, victim of severe carbon monoxide poisoning.
They couldn't do anything to save him.
The 68-year-old wife of the septuagenarian was only slightly affected by the colorless and odorless gas.
She was transported to the Dechy hospital center.
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