A local man remains on life support in an Arkansas hospital after he was pulled Monday from a home where propane heaters and a generator had been in use.
An unconscious Jason Freeman, was found inside 421 Valley Monday morning and subsequently taken to NEA Baptist Memorial Hospital in Jonesboro for treatment.
Lola Condray said her brother remains in the intensive-care unit and is on life support,
“They tried to remove the tube, but each time they try to remove them, he can’t breath,” Condray explained. “The doctor said (Thursday) morning if he doesn’t fight, there is nothing they can do.”
Condray said her brother is not fighting.
“If he don’t begin to fight, we are going to lose him,” she said.
Doctors, according to Condray, have ruled out carbon monoxide as the cause of his condition.
Toxicology analysis, she said, found methamphetamine and Fentanyl in Freeman’s system.
A substance abuse counselor, Condray said, everyone needs to know meth and Fentanyl are killing people.
Authorities can’t dispute possible narcotics use, but firefighters registered readings of carbon monoxide in the home.
Gas company personnel also responded to the home, where they detected “a high level of carbon monoxide in the house,” Mike Moffitt, interim fire chief, earlier said.
Authorities report the home had been “placard a nuisance” by city officials and no one was supposed to be living inside.
Poplar Bluff firefighters found several propane bottles for heating, two propane heaters and a generator inside the home.
Condray said her brother recently moved a travel trailer onto her property.
“He’s been homeless,” Condray said. “The last report I heard he was living in his truck and then this happened.”