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Authorities: Smoking and Oxygen Caused Reno Apartment Fire  

Investigators say an early morning fire at a Reno apartment complex was caused by someone smoking while using a medical oxygen device.

It happened around 1 AM at the Rosewood Park Apartments on Mira Loma. . . .

Investigators say the loud boom heard initially by residents appears to have been the oxygen tank exploding. Larry Laskowski got out of his downstairs unit just in time, but said he couldn't believe what was happening. "All of the sudden there was an explosion, the front doors got blown in and the walls opposite the door fall in and all kinds of flames and black smoke."

Four people were taken to the hospital for injuries ranging from burns to broken ribs to smoke inhalation.

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