Cubans among neighbors hospitalized due to gas leak in Miami.

Among the 22 residents of a Miami-Dade condominium who had to be hospitalized due to a carbon monoxide leak, there are Cubans.

The firefighters responded early Tuesday morning to an apartment complex where several people were feeling sick, and upon arrival, they detected a gas leak.

In total, 60 people had to be evacuated and received assistance on-site, with 22 of them being transported to local hospitals. Everyone is out of danger.

"We all got scared, we started to see chaos, people with dizziness, weakness, strong headaches," Heidy Rodríguez, a young affected person, told América TeVe.

We hope that what happened is investigated, nothing like this had ever happened before. We know it is a building that is a certain number of years old, but we honestly did not expect this, he added.

Another one of the evacuees is Ana Luis, a mother of a young child, who found out what was happening when the firefighters called her house, and only managed to grab her son and run out.

"They started taking those who were feeling un illness, who lacked oxygen, and then those of us who were feeling well were tested and those with elevated levels were taken away, and the rest of us had to wait here," he explained.

Ana revealed that in the coming days they will be without hot water because the gas leak was from the water heater.

The incident occurred around 4:30 am on Tuesday, at the Hemingway Villa Condominium building located at the intersection of 94th Avenue and 40 Terrace in the southwest county.

Erika Benítez, spokesperson for the Miami-Dade Fire Department, reported that apparently the source of carbon monoxide was a heater in a room adjacent to several units in the apartments.

Twenty-six fire units responded to the emergency and evacuated all residents; the apartments were left with the doors open.

Erika Benítez remembered that carbon monoxide is very dangerous. It is a colorless gas that has no taste, and those who inhale it experience headaches and nausea, but it could suddenly cause death.

Experts suggest that in order to protect themselves, alarms should be installed in homes and their operation should be checked periodically.