A middle aged couple is rushed to hospital from their Perth home after inhaling fumes when they tried to burn charcoal to stay warm amid cold overnight temperatures.
A Perth couple who used a charcoal burner in their bedroom to keep warm overnight is being treated for suspected carbon monoxide poisoning.Perth's temperature dropped to 3.4 degrees Celsius overnight.
"The information that we currently have based on what we've located and seen was the burning of charcoal in an unventilated area," he said.Perth's temperature dipped to a low of 3.4 degrees Celsius overnight, about 5 degrees lower than the June average minimum of 8.6 C.“They were using it as a heating source in a bedroom, so there was actually a double bed where both of the casualties were located,” he said.
"Obviously, the safe use of it is a common practice in a well-ventilated area. It's not often that we get a lot of these incidents, but it's not unheard of.
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