How did they die, with the water so shallow??? Oh yeah, because of the formaldehyde inhalations, this is, quite, unfortunate, if you ask me, but once again, W-H-O asked you??? Exactly, off of the Front Page Sections, translated…
The Decorated Police Station Secretary, Lu Yesterday Went to the Pomelo Farm His Family Owned in Donghe Village of Gukeng County to Fix up the Leaks in the Water Towers, He Was Suspected of Becoming Unconscious from Inhaling in Too Much Formaldehyde in the Waterproof Paint, His Wife Found Something Wasn’t Quite Right, Made Her Way into the Water Tower to Save Him, Inhaled in the Poisonous Gas Too; the Families Told, the Water Tower Was Built Over Forty Years Ago, Had Been Leaking a Very Long Time, Lu Went to Fix Up the Leakage on His Days Off, But, He Died Unfortunately.
Lu is fifty-six, his wife, Chen was fifty-four, and also worked for the police department locally, they were happily married, with a son and two daughters, their son is currently an intern physician, the death of this couple by accident caused all their colleague to be impacted.
The assistant director of the substation, Jeng said, the couple live in Douliou City on the weekdays, at around nine in the morn yesterday, the couple returned back to their family’s pomelo plantation with the waterproof paints in their old home in Donghe Village of Gukeng, Lu climbed into the water tower using the wooden ladders, this water tower was about two meters in height, made of cement, back then, the water level inside was only twenty-five centimeters deep.
At the preliminary investigations, Lu may have inhaled in too much formaldehyde, lost consciousness, and drowned to death, and as Lu’s wife found something wasn’t quite right with her husband, she’d, climbed up onto the water tower, saw her husband passed out, rushed in to help save him, but she’d, ended up, passed out too.
Because the couple didn’t make it home for lunch, at around three, their middle school age youngest daughter went to the pomelo farm that’s two kilometers away to find them, and found the parents, dead inside the water towers, she’d, immediately, called for help, but it was, already, too late.
Lu’s younger brother said, that the family’s pomelo farm is located in Lotus Bud Village, about three acres, that it was their father who’d, planted the fruits, and after their father died, the land was, transferred to his older brother, and, for many years, it was his older brother who’d come back on his vacation days to oversee the plantation workings, because the water tower is built with cement, it’d started leaking many years ago, recently, it’d, leaked too much that there’s not enough water to irrigate the plants, that’s why his older brother had gone out, bought the waterproof paint, to try to fix it.
And, this, is quite tragic, this man and his wife are now, dead, because of a minor error in not watching out for their own, safety, and this still just showed, how quickly life can be gone, and, hopefully, this will be a warning, to those who are, in a similar situation, to make sure that there’s, enough airflow in and out of a space, when the individual is using, something that may be, toxic to inhale.
Life, the Obstacle Course 