AMBULANCE STATIONS IN THE SOUTHEAST areas of England are suddenly experiencing a spate of thefts of Entonox cylinders. The mixture of nitrous oxide and oxygen that is used medically as a mild anaesthesia has become popular with so-called “boy racers” who use it to mix with gasoline and the result makes their cars go much faster.
Five cylinders of the gas were stolen in the latest incident from a storage area at the ambulance station in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk. Cylinders have also been stolen at other stations in Newmarket, Haverhill and Stowmarket in Suffolk as well as Cambridgeshire. Another cylinder was taken in June last year from an empty ambulance after paramedics left it parked outside Ipswich Hospital.
East of England Ambulance Service spokeswoman Adrienne Watts said: “It is like rocket fuel and is sometimes used to boost engine performance. This is the second time in a month that ambulance staff in Suffolk have arrived for work to find that cylinders of Entonox had been stolen from their stores.”
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