{"id":793624,"date":"2026-07-11T13:45:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-11T13:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/793624\/"},"modified":"2026-07-11T13:45:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-11T13:45:11","slug":"carbon-monoxide-poisoning-suspected-in-fatal-mount-gambier-incident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/793624\/","title":{"rendered":"Carbon monoxide poisoning suspected in fatal Mount Gambier incident"},"content":{"rendered":"

A 55-year-old man has died and three other men have been taken to hospital after suspected carbon monoxide poisoning at a Mount Gambier home in South Australia’s south-east this morning.<\/p>\n

Emergency services were called to the home on Penola Road just before 9am, initiating a HAZMAT response because of concerns about potentially hazardous gas.<\/p>\n

On arrival, firefighters found four occupants unconscious in a back room.<\/p>\n

Police have since confirmed that one of the four people has died.<\/p>\n

“Sadly, a 55-year-old man died at the scene,” police said in a statement.<\/p>\n

“Three other occupants were taken to hospital for treatment of suspected carbon monoxide poisoning.”<\/p>\n

SA Health said those three occupants were all men, aged in their 50s through to their 70s.<\/p>\n

It said the three men had been taken to Mount Gambier hospital, and that they were all in a stable condition.<\/p>\n

\"Penola<\/p>\n

Firefighters were called to Penola Road just before 9am. (ABC News: Aiden McNamara)<\/p>\n

Police said the incident was being investigated but was not believed “to be suspicious at this time”.<\/p>\n

While the exact circumstances of the Mount Gambier incident are unclear, the Metropolitan Fire Service (MFS) has previously warned about carbon monoxide being a “silent killer”<\/a> because it has no smell, taste, or colour.<\/p>\n

According to SafeWork SA, symptoms of carbon monoxide exposure include headache, nausea or vomiting, breathlessness, drowsiness, impaired judgement, collapse and coma.<\/p>\n

The MFS said eight firefighters attended the Mount Gambier property, and that crews wore breathing apparatus when they entered the home.<\/p>\n

Police will prepare a report for the coroner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 55-year-old man has died and three other men have been taken to hospital after suspected carbon monoxide…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":793625,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,52852,373458,182403,468,44,373459,373460,192614],"class_list":["post-793624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-firefighters","tag-hazmat","tag-mfs","tag-mount-gambier","tag-news","tag-penola-road","tag-people-found","tag-unresponsive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=793624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793624\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/793625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=793624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=793624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=793624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}