Of mourning has been dyed this sad Christmas day, the city of Palencia Baltanaswho, almost at dawn on Christmas Eve, woke up to the sound of emergency sirens. Ambulances, Civil Guard, Firefighters… went to the … called for the possible poisoning of an entire family on Virgen Street.
It was around 10:30 a.m. on December 25 when a call came to 1-1-2 in Castile and León requesting help for four people: two unconscious, perhaps due to carbon monoxide poisoningand two others with a headache.
And when help arrived, one of the worst news: The 12-year-old boy, unconscious, died. His name was Fabio. He had arrived with the rest of the family, of Colombian origin, less than a year ago in Baltanás to work. They were already settled there and the boy was going to school in this town of around 1,300 inhabitants. I was in sixth grade, the last year before making the big jump to ESO and high school.
His sister, two years oldwas transferred with his mother, 21 years old, by basic resuscitation ambulance to the Río Carrión Hospital in Palencia. The father, 33 years old years old, who was also unconscious when the alarms were triggered, had to be transferred to a mobile intensive care unit at the Valdecilla Hospital, in Santander, in a state critical.
The Civil Guard became investigation chargealthough the origin of the possible carbon monoxide poisoning could be due to the poor combustion of the gloria, the traditional underfloor heating system, generally powered by vegetable fuel, that the house on Calle de la Virgen has.
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