The victims, aged between 19 and 30, all seemed to know each other.
A mass fentanyl overdose incident in Northern California on Saturday left one dead and at least a dozen others hospitalized.
At a news conference, Chico, California police captain Mike O’Brien said one man died at the scene and four other victims are in critical condition, reported NBC News . “Certainly there’s potential for additional fatalities,” he added. “I want to emphasize that.”
A person affiliated with the house where the overdoses occurred called 911 on Saturday morning at around 9:12 a.m local time. Responding officers performed CPR at the scene and provided six victims with doses of naloxone, medicine that can treat narcotic overdoses in emergency situations. “It certainly would have been far worse without the response and dispensing of naloxone by Chico police officers,” O’Brien said.
