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Cigarette sparks oxygen tank blaze; clothes melt to his body
Jump to full article: Las Vegas Review-Journal, 2007-12-04
Author: BRIAN HAYNES REVIEW-JOURNAL
Intro: A man and woman were seriously burned Monday morning when the woman's cigarette sparked a fire with her oxygen tank, a spokesman for the Clark County Fire Department said.
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The fire was the third in two weeks involving cigarettes and oxygen tanks.
In one of those cases, a man died Friday morning after his apartment on Charleston Boulevard near Interstate 15 was gutted by a fire. . . .
upinsmoke wrote on December 04, 2007 08:32 AM: How many people with oxegen tanks come in and sit in the casino's and are smoking and the people around them are smoking. I smoke and even I know oxegen and smoking don't go together. The casino's should ban people with oxygen tanks to only be in the non-smoking areas including resturants, bingo rooms etc.
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