Last Monday night, Kevin Ayala, a Honduran immigrant who lived in Fort Worth County, near Dallas, died of carbon monoxide poisoning after the house he lived in was without power due to the winter storm that hit the state of Texas.
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According to Univision Noticias Tito López, Ayala’s first cousin, that night the 23-year-old man, originally from Ojo de Agua in the department of Copán, in western Honduras, was desperately trying to heat his house located in Block 4800 of the avenue G of that community.
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To do this, Ayala turned on a generator inside your kitchen with the intention of generating heat. In the room they met him Katherin Padilla, his pregnant wife, and their son, who also suffered the ravages of freezing temperatures that have been recorded because of the winter storm in the state.
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Neither adult detected any unusual odor or some other problem that alerted them that the room was filling with dangerous carbon monoxide, a colorless and highly toxic gas that in large quantities can cause death.
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It was a matter of one hour after starting the generator when all three people felt tired and fell asleep.
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“They put a generator inside the room and how that gives off gases and smoke and all that matter. made them intoxicated”Said López, who, in addition to being a relative of Kevin, is a pastor in Honduras.
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A family friend named Edan Pérez, was the one who stopped at the Ayala house and realized that all three people were unconscious in the kitchen. He immediately notified the emergency services.
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Katherin and her son were rushed to the hospital. However, Kevin, who according to his cousin had arrived from Honduras just over two years ago to the United States, did not survive.
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“His partner is already stable. The boy who was with them too. And the child that she had in her womb was not (suffered any damage) either, ”said López.
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That day, the Fort Worth County Fire Department reported on its account of Twitter that they had received more than 80 emergency calls related to carbon monoxide.
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In the past eight days, the Texas Poison Center Network has received over 450 calls for carbon monoxide events, most related to the use of heat sources inside homes, because people have sought to shelter from the worst winter storm the state has ever experienced.
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Pastor Tito López assures that what remains is to repatriate Kevin Ayala’s remains to Honduras where he is survived by his mother, father and two brothers, a complicated action due to not having enough resources. For this, the family has opened a fundraising page.
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Regarding the support that anyone can provide, the pastor assures that at this time “it is a call to conscience. All human beings we have a conscience that yells at us or tells us what to do and more in a case like these. God will bless everyone who helps this family. “
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