2024-01-15 09:45:16
A living room where an explosion occurred due to insecticide sprayed to kill rats./Daegu West Fire Department
An explosion occurred due to pesticides sprayed in the living room of a house to kill rats.
According to the Daegu West Fire Station on the 15th, Mr. A, in his 70s, living in a single-family home in Jungni-dong, Seo-gu, Daegu, closed all the living room windows and sprayed 20 cans of cockroach insecticide to catch rats roaming around the ceiling of the house.
Afterwards, a fire broke out along with an explosion of unknown cause, burning the living room and causing property damage estimated by the fire department to be about 8.3 million won. Person A was outside the living room at the time of the explosion and was not injured.
Police and fire authorities are investigating the exact cause of the explosion, believing that fine particles of liquefied petroleum gas, a flammable pesticide, caused friction with an electric insect repellant in the living room. Kim Song-ho, chief of the Daegu West Fire Department, said, “Most aerosol products such as pesticides and hair sprays use flammable high-pressure gas, which has the risk of explosion, as a propellant, so be careful about explosion when used in a closed place.”
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