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Nursing home resident dies after starting fire 

A nursing home resident died this morning after he accidentally started a fire that caused third-degree burns to 75 percent of his body, authorities said.

Rowlan Clayton, 66, who lived in the Ambassador Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, at 4900 N. Bernard St., was pronounced dead at 11:45 a.m. at Loyola University Medical Center in Maywood, according to the Cook County medical examiner's office.

About 5:30 a.m., Clayton was sitting in a chair on a patio outside the nursing home when he sparked the fire, which spread to his clothes, authorities said.

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