Woman Still in Coma After Hibachi Asphyxiations
Canh Thi Nguyen, whose husband and son died of asphyxiation after using a hibachi grill to heat their Santa Ana apartment, remained in a coma Friday at the AMI Medical Center of Garden Grove.
On Wednesday, a lethal dose of colorless, odorless carbon monoxide from the grill overcame the couple and their two children.
The father, Nghiep Tan Nguyen, 39, and the boy, Jollivet, estimated to be about 3 years old, died where they slept in the front room of the converted-garage apartment. The wife and mother, who was found near them, remains in critical condition in the hospital’s intensive care unit.
Only the couple’s 2-week old daughter, Sophia, escaped relatively unharmed. She was found in a bedroom and was taken to Western Medical Center-Santa Ana, where she was treated and released.
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