Their lives, and that of their dog, 14-yearold Jack Russell Terrier Patch, were saved when their friend Jill White came to pay her weekly, social visit.
I let the dog out for a walk, came back sat in the chair and just dozed off the next thing I remembered someone had an oxygen mask on me. I got up to get breakfast for my wife who was still in bed. Percy, 85, a retired fishmonger from Tavistock Pannier Market, said: I didn t know anything had happened. Unbeknown to them falling stones had blocked the chimney and led to a build-up of poisonous carbon monoxide from their solid fuel fireplace and back boiler, fuelled by coal and anthracite. Pensioners Percy O Donnell and his wife, Joyce, 91, were overcome by fumes last Thursday morning at their cottage at Wallabrook. 1 TAVISTOCK TIMES GAZETTE ESTABLISHED 1857 AN INDEPENDENT FAMILY-OWNED NEWSPAPER No: Brook Street, Tavistock, PL19 OHD Tel: THURSDAY, JANUARY 10, p Lucky to be alive Swift action by visiting friend saved elderly couple from carbon monoxide poisoning D V D Around 700 properties to choose from OVER 3,000 DVDS 28 A West Street, (01822) LATEST BLU-RAY / 3D D V D M & C White Motor Engineers 7 PIXON LANE, TAVISTOCK TAVISTOCK SERVICING, REPAIRS & MOT`s Butter wouldn t melt! 8 Paddons Row, Tavistock by John Hutchins THE quick thinking of a visiting friend and the courage of a paramedic saved the lives of an elderly Tavistock couple.
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