Fireman Out To Eat Sees 30 Diners Suddenly Collapse, Then Notices The Wall
By Dreamer
About an hour and a half into his sit-down meal at a North Carolina restaurant, Firefighter Lonnie Williams sensed something amiss in the room before everyone around him began collapsing. After several people suddenly fell over, the fireman started administering aid as people kept dropping like flies, and that’s when he looked up in horror at what he saw on the wall.
Williams was enjoying dinner at the River Ridge Taphouse on his day off from the Lewisville Fire Department when he was wrapping up his meal and things took an alarming turn. Without warning, people around his started acting odd, as some were frequenting the bathroom in droves and others were falling over on the table seemingly sick or in pain. His training kicked in as he got up from his table and sought to determine what the problem was when he spotted it on the wall and acted fast.
Firefighter Lonnie Williams (left), River Ridge Taphouse (right)
“People were starting to act a little weird,” Wimmer said, according to WGHP. “Heads hurting, people holding their belly going to the bathroom a lot,” he explained. “Some of the adults were acting kind of nauseated, sick,” he said before calling for backup from his friends at the fire department.
As he did what he could for the victims, which were increasing by the second until a total of 30 patrons fell ill, he saw the vent on the wall and realized that everyone in the room was likely suffering from carbon monoxide coming out of it. “We identified the most likely source to be a natural gas heating system,” Lewisville Fire Department Assistant Chief Steve Williams told the news station, who quickly arrived at the restaurant after getting Williams’ call.
Thanks to Williams being in the right place at the right time with the skills he has, everyone is expected to be okay since he and the arriving firefighters were able to stop the situation before it got worse. Carbon monoxide poisoning is known as an invisible killer because it doesn’t have a smell and is not visible in the air.
The symptoms come on suddenly and feel like the flu or food poisoning and people stay in the intoxicated area for too long without realizing the lethal danger lurking in the air. Williams is a hero every day on the job and now even when he’s off the clock.
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