The fireplace is becoming the cause of death in cold, burning it in a closed room can be dangerous, know how you can save yourself?

Winter Tips: Cold wave situation has persisted in Delhi-NCR for the last few days. To escape from the cold, some people are resorting to fireplace while many people are using heaters. But a slight mistake in their use can prove fatal for you. Recently such a case has come to light from Chapra. While some people slept in a closed room with a burning fireplace, four people died due to suffocation due to the gas coming out of it. The doctor says that the fireplace should never be lit in a closed room because the carbon monoxide released due to fire can be fatal. In such a situation, let us tell you the way to avoid this.

The fireplace is becoming the cause of death in cold weather.

Experts say that people light fireplaces in closed rooms to avoid cold in winter. But do you know that burning the fireplace in a closed room increases the amount of carbon monoxide gas inside. While the oxygen level starts decreasing. This situation becomes fatal. If we talk about heaters, then burning them for a long time in a closed room increases the temperature of the room and reduces the humidity level. Due to this, people start having difficulty in breathing and sometimes in such situations, death occurs due to suffocation.

What to do and what not to do while lighting the fireplace

If you are lighting a fireplace in the room, then keep one or more buckets of water inside so that the humidity inside the room is maintained to some extent.
If you are burning a fireplace in the house, then take care of ventilation.
Never sleep in a closed room with the fireplace lit. Do not keep the fireplace with you.
Apart from this, do not keep plastic, chemicals or any other flammable material around the bonfire.
When lighting the fireplace, open the windows or nets of the house.
If you are experiencing chest pain, headache or difficulty in breathing, consult a doctor immediately.

Many other accidents occurred due to fireplace

This is not the first time that such an incident of death due to fireplace in winter has happened. Even before this, many people have died due to sleeping with the fireplace lit in a closed room. Nawada In 2015 also two people of a family died due to sleeping with the fireplace lit. Apart from this, in Noida, slept with a burning coal stove in the car. Traxy The driver had died. of Uttar Pradesh Saharanpur Of shukhpura Five laborers living in Haryana died tragically due to suffocation in Haryana.