IT HAS HAPPENED AGAIN! 5 MORE POISONED IN CORNWALL OVER BANK HOLIDAY
Warning to All Campers and Caravanners
Following the publication of this article, Cade's were contacted by BBC Radio 5 Live and Radio Mersyeside and invited to talk about it on air which we willingly did. Everyone needs to know about this. Please include a warning in any welcome pack you give to new arrivals.
Cade's are saddened by the tragic yet avoidabale death of another camper in a carbon monoxide poisoning incident.
Within a month of each other two campers holidaying at different parks, one in Norfolk and one in the New Forest, have for the sake of warmth, taken barbecues in to their closed tents. On both occasions, one of each of the couples staying in the tents have been silently overcome by carbon monoxide and died in their sleep, leaving their partner behind, chronically sick but with their life spared. The most recent gentleman was a resident of Milton Keynes, the home of Cade's, and gone camping with his wife to celebrate his 50th birthday.
Why is this happening? All fossil fuels produce Carbon Monoxide when burning. It is an invisible and odourless gas but nevertheless, extremely poisonous. On the two instances referred to, it would seem that the barbecue has been taken into the tent after cooking and perhaps when the owner thought it was almost out, to provide a source of warmth whilst they settled down for the night. It is then that the fairly well sealed tents fill slowly with the poisonous gas and the occupants unwittingly breath it in.
CADE'S URGE THEIR READERS NOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES TO TAKE BARBECUES INTO TENTS
As sad as these two most recent events are, they are not the only ones. We at Cade's were present a few years ago on a touring park in Somerset when the obviously troubled owner urged us to come with him as one of his wardens beleived he had discovered two people dead in a tent. Indeed they were. The couple had obviously taken a lighted charcoal barbecue in to their tent to cook as evidence of both cooked and uncooked food was found on it.
When they were discovered it appeared they had been sitting on their air mattress side by side facing outwards whilst cooking in the closed tent. The carbon monoxide produced had slowly poisoned both of them and they had both keeled over, the lady resting upon the gentleman. He was still holding the remains of a roll up cigarette between his fingers. The saddest and most horrifying part of this incident is that the couple had not been discovered for at least two days and we will never forget the horrible condition of those two bodies on that summers afternoon.
If these stories have shocked you, then I have achieved my aim. Please do not think this will not happen to you. If you do the same, IT WILL. Read this Press Release from RoSPA, click on the logo.
