Gifu couple found dead possibly due to carbon monoxide poisoning

Sunday 18th January, 03:11 AM JST

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maryhinge at 05:16 PM JST - 17th January

Strange the daughter-in-law waited that long, until 04:50 am to go and check if she had heard it much earlier! But I guess we'll never know.
kwatt at 06:11 PM JST - 17th January

Gas water heaters may be not good in Japan. Old heaters using city gas sometimes malfunction to leak carbon monoxide. While gas water heater is used, ventilation must be good.
jwills79 at 08:35 PM JST - 17th January

Yeah, I'm not surprised they don't have CO3 detector in the house. I wonder how many even smoke detectors in the house.
seesaw at 09:57 PM JST - 17th January

I supposed they don't want to burden their son anymore. RIP.
Laguna at 10:09 PM JST - 17th January

What is Paloma - the Dr. Kevorkian of appliance makers? I'm amazed they are still in business; if they were an American company, their assets would have long ago been liquidated to compensate their victims.
neverknow2 at 11:54 PM JST - 17th January

Paloma Industries’ gas water heaters have come to light in recent years

The boss from Paloma was rude to the boss from another company that makes more money so that boss now says bad things about Paloma and the Japanese people believe it!
Betting at 12:23 AM JST - 18th January

Paloma - another quality Japanese product.
bobbafett at 12:27 AM JST - 18th January

it was strange that the water heater’s motor sound was on throughout the night

Gas bills are killers
Disillusioned at 12:52 AM JST - 18th January

Why was this product not black banned after the first incident? In developed countries the first instance of this potentially lethal fault would have resulted in a full recall of the product and litigation of the company. I wonder how many more people will have to die before any action is taken.
mikihouse at 09:07 AM JST - 19th January

Why blame Paloma? the fan must be plugged so that the poisonous carbon monoxide will not accumulate but reading the news, the couple knew that the machine is broken but they decided to use it anyway. Its like driving your car knowing that the brakes doesn't work. Its plain stupidity.
kwatt at 01:59 PM JST - 19th January

Paloma is no.1 manufacturer that produced water gas heaters in Japan and old gas heaters still cause malfucntions. They still could not and can not recall all and fix because there are too many all over in Japan. Carbon monoxide is no smell. You may be unconscious and then dead when you felt sick.