A 12-year-old boy and his 33-year-old father died this Thursday, Christmas Day, from smoke inhalation in a house in the municipality of Paltanás, Baltanás. The causes of this double death are attributed primarily to poisoning by inhalation of carbon monoxide, which also affected a 21-year-old woman and a two-year-old girl. The deceased and these two women belonged to the same family unit, as reported by the 112 emergency service of Castilla y León. Initial information from 112 indicated that the child had initially died and that his father had been taken unconscious to the Palencia hospital, where death finally occurred, according to the Palencia government sub-delegation.
The information was sent to emergency services at around 10:30 a.m. on December 25. Alerters requested help for an adult and a minor on Virgen Street, Baltanás. Likewise, it is also stated that the two-year-old girl and another 21-year-old woman suffered from headaches, common symptoms of inhaling toxic air. The deployment included members of the Palencia Civil Guard, firefighters of the affiliation and an emergency contingent composed of a mobile intensive care unit, an ambulance equipped with all basic support and the medical guard team of the health center of the city of Palencia where the event occurred.
There, it was found that the minor, aged 12, had lost his life. In turn, the father, 33, was transferred to the mobile intensive care unit of the Río Carrión hospital in the capital Palencia, where it was eventually confirmed that the adult had also died from poisoning due to carbon monoxide inhalation. The affected woman and girl were also transferred by basic life support ambulance to the same hospital to receive corresponding medical treatment.
The Civil Guard of Palencia took charge of the investigation to try to clarify the reasons for this event which led to two deaths and to try to confirm that what happened in Baltanás corresponded to carbon monoxide poisoning linked to the heating system of the house where they lived.
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