A couple of septuagenarians in Isère, deprived of electricity because of the last snowy episode, was found dead Sunday morning at his home, poisoned with carbon monoxide emanating from a generator, we learned from the floor. "Firefighters who intervened raised very high levels of carbon monoxide" Sunday morning at the home of victims in Beauvoir-de-Marc, said the prosecutor of the Republic of Vienna, Jerome Bourrier, who seized investigation.
Alain Pichat, mayor of the Isère commune, knew the couple, with whom he spent "all his childhood". Asked by Europe 1, he details the conditions of this dramatic incident: "They ran a generator in the basement of their house.The light came back around 10:30 am The husband came down to stop the generator His wife, not seeing him come back, came down in turn, she found herself in a sheet of carbon oxide, she rocked too.
70,000 households still without electricity
The 75-year-old couple was found inanimate by relatives and rescuers, once alerted, had experienced "embarrassment in their breathing after a certain time of intervention," said the deputy prefect of the Tour-du-Pin, Caroline Gadou.
Sunday mid-day, Enedis said that some 70,000 homes in the Rhône-Alpes remained without electricity after the heavy snowfall that hit Thursday six departments in the region, including Isère.