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Jump to full article: Arizona Daily Star, 2009-08-16
Author: Rob O'Dell and Jamar Younger Arizona Daily Star
Intro: An elderly woman and her 66-year-old daughter died in a trailer park fire in northwest Tucson late Friday after a lighted cigarette and medical oxygen combined to spark the blaze.
Edna Mayer, 94, and her daughter, Susan R. Weiner, were pronounced dead at the scene after the fire consumed the rear master bedroom of their double-wide mobile home, said Northwest Fire Capt. Adam Goldberg. . . .
Goldberg speculated that Weiner could have tried to light a cigarette while using the oxygen tank, starting the fire. It also could have started by Weiner smoking in bed, or by the improper disposal of a cigarette, Goldberg said.
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