The house was really cold,” friend Edan Perez said.
So Ayala had an idea, a way for him and his family to survive in the freezing temperatures. To keep the house warm, he put that generator inside the kitchen,” Perez said.
They couldn t smell anything or see anything and didn t even realize there was a problem.
But the house quickly filled with carbon monoxide.
About an hour after connecting the generator, his wife Katherin Padilla said they started to feel tired and went to sleep.
A friend happened to stop by and found them passed out. It was a bad situation,” Perez said. “It was bad, bad, bad.