death at Talladaga campgrond
Folks it's getting that time for using heaters in rv's. Saw on Jayski's Silly Season site that a man was found dead in his RV and his wife is in critical condition.They think it was from the exhaust i...
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skipnchar
Not to compare our near dog accident with a tragic human loss, but it does make a point about rigs being stuffed into tight areas.
Just last spring we went to a big horse show where the rigs were crammed in like sardines. The last night we were there various folks were breaking camp and pulling out and some of us planned to spend the night. The evening air was cool. Someone backed in and let their truck idle on the offside of our TT for a long time. We were eating dinner with a group to the back of the camp. All of a sudden we heard a dog barking really shrill.. very alarming type of bark. I finally went back to see what the problem was (but I knew it wasn't my dogs barking). What I found was that big ol' Dually's muffler was vented to the SIDE of their truck and had been pumping exhaust RIGHT under our TT and directly onto our two crated dogs. Our small dog (12#) was directly in-line WITH THE EXHAUST. Our boxer was drooling all over, but our smaller dog was seized up, gasping, retching, and had vomited all over her crate. She must have been struggling for awhile as she was covered in vomit. I was horrified! I grabbed both dogs (the boxer was wobbly, but ambulant) and I carried Pip to fresh air. We dang near lost our dogs! Had we not been close enough to hear that other dog barking I can't imagine what we would have returned to.
Now, I am ON IT FAST when it comes to people letting a rig idle for more then about 5 min near us. I don't care who I annoy by complaining. I wrote a letter to the event organizers asking that they address the situation in the future for safety purposes.
So very sad to have a loss of life to something like this... hard for the family members to wrap their brain around that.
Not to compare our near dog accident with a tragic human loss, but it does make a point about rigs being stuffed into tight areas.
Just last spring we went to a big horse show where the rigs were crammed in like sardines. The last night we were there various folks were breaking camp and pulling out and some of us planned to spend the night. The evening air was cool. Someone backed in and let their truck idle on the offside of our TT for a long time. We were eating dinner with a group to the back of the camp. All of a sudden we heard a dog barking really shrill.. very alarming type of bark. I finally went back to see what the problem was (but I knew it wasn't my dogs barking). What I found was that big ol' Dually's muffler was vented to the SIDE of their truck and had been pumping exhaust RIGHT under our TT and directly onto our two crated dogs. Our small dog (12#) was directly in-line WITH THE EXHAUST. Our boxer was drooling all over, but our smaller dog was seized up, gasping, retching, and had vomited all over her crate. She must have been struggling for awhile as she was covered in vomit. I was horrified! I grabbed both dogs (the boxer was wobbly, but ambulant) and I carried Pip to fresh air. We dang near lost our dogs! Had we not been close enough to hear that other dog barking I can't imagine what we would have returned to.
Now, I am ON IT FAST when it comes to people letting a rig idle for more then about 5 min near us. I don't care who I annoy by complaining. I wrote a letter to the event organizers asking that they address the situation in the future for safety purposes.
So very sad to have a loss of life to something like this... hard for the family members to wrap their brain around that.
