Carol Oldfield, 74, died on March 16, and if it be a simple death, it should not be newsworthy.
However, the events and the turnout of her death is of a very unfortunate misplacement, combined with light dementia, which should place awareness to families of senile members to be extra cautious. The senior resident of Ripley, Derbyshire apparently tried to fry her own chips in the hob of her kitchen on March 6, putting the 3-In-One lubricant oil in the fryer. Then she went for sleep for two hours, while the burning oil thinned out to a curtain of white smoke. Unfortunately she got to inhale some of the residue, as she went on to the second floor to evacuate.
Assistant coroner Emma Serrano explained the case in a new reveal: “Mrs Oldfield called Derbyshire Fire and Rescue Service on March 6 this year just after 7pm, the remote hearing was told.
Mrs Oldfield told the call handler that her house was full of smoke and she could not find her way out. Three fire engines were sent to the scene, one from Ripley and two from Alfreton. Police and an ambulance also attended.”
Firefighters told Mrs Oldfield to wait upstairs until they could ventilate the ground floor.
They then escorted her out of the house, and at first she seemed to have suffered little damage and was taken to hospital for checks. But Dr Marco Giovannelli, consultant at Royal Derby Hospital, detailed in a report how her condition slowly worsened, with Mrs Oldfield complaining of a hoarse throat and coughing over the next few days.
She was eventually moved to end-of-life care on March 16, and passed away two days later. A medical examination of her brain for an inquest into her death at Derby Coroner’s Court has revealed that she had early signs of dementia.
Miss Serrano said: ‘Mrs Oldfield put three-in-one oil on her chips, which is different from cooking oil.
She turned on the hob and went into the front room and fell asleep. The room filled with white smoke, which she inhaled. She woke up and called the fire service who managed to get her out of the address but sadly the damage had already happened. She did not recover and sadly passed away.
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Her technical cause of death was given as 1A Pneumonia and 1B smoke inhalation. The coroner ruled that Mrs Oldfield did not intend to take her own life, and the reason was put down to misadventure.
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