Jump to full article: KLAS-TV Channel 8 (Las Vegas, NV), 2007-12-06
Author: Ky Plaskon, Reporter
Intro: For the second time in less than a week, someone smoking while using oxygen caused a fire. This time two people were critically injured.
The column of smoke was visible across the valley. The fire started around 6 a.m. Monday at a home near Mountain Vista and Desert Inn. . . .
The victim's mother, Pam was also in bad shape but she was able to tell firefighters that she was using oxygen and smoking a cigarette.
"It flashed on her. She had facial burns. She had upper body burns. It spread fast because there was a very large fire load," continued Scott Allison.
Corder added, "We have been telling her for years."
Neighbor Steve Corder says the 68-year-old used to come over to his house with the oxygen and smoke. "Used to scare us. She would bring that mobile over here and oh God, she is going to blow our house up. But this time she did it." . . .
The second incident was Friday.
Investigators say smoking while using oxygen may have caused a fire that led to the death of a man in his sixties in an apartment complex on East Charleston near US-95/I-515.
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