Among the 22 residents of a Miami-Dade condominium who had to be There are Cubans hospitalized due to a carbon monoxide leak.
Firefighters responded early Tuesday to an apartment complex where Several people were feeling sick and upon arrival, they detected a gas leak.
Total, 60 people had to be evacuated and received assistance on the spot, from them, 22 were transported to local hospitals. Everybody is out of danger.
“All We get scared, we start to see chaos, people with dizziness, weakness, severe headaches“, he told America TeVe Heidy Rodriguezan affected young woman.
“Let’s hope that what happened is investigated, nothing had ever happened, we know that It is a building that is a certain number of years old, but we did not expect this“Honestly,” he added.
Another of the evacuees is Ana Luismother of a small child, who found out what was happening when the firefighters called her house, and only managed to grab her son and run away.
“They began to take people who felt bad, who had a lack of oxygenand later those of us who felt good gave us a test and those who had a high level took them away, and we waited here,” he explained.
Ana revealed that In the next few days they will have cold water because the gas leak was from the water heating.
The incident occurred around 4:30 am on Tuesday. in the Hemingway Villa Condominium building, located at the intersection of 94th Avenue and 40th Terrace in Southwest County.
Erika Benítezspokesperson for the Miami-Dade Fire Department, reported that it appears that the source of the carbon monoxide was a heater in a room adjacent to several apartment units.
Twenty-six fire units responded to the emergency and evacuated all residents, the apartments were left with their doors open.
Erika Benítez recalled that carbon monoxide is very dangerous, it is a colorless gas that has no taste and those who inhale it experience headaches and nausea, but it could suddenly cause death.
Experts suggest that to protect yourself, alarms should be installed in homes and their operation checked periodically.
