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Lit cigarette, oxygen tank fuel Port Townsend fire 

Jump to full article: Associated Press (AP), 2009-11-12

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Firefighters say a lit cigarette and oxygen tanks likely fueled a blaze that destroyed a home early Wednesday, leaving two people homeless.

East Jefferson Fire Rescue spokeswoman Keppie Keplinger says a man who lived at the single story duplex used oxygen tanks for health problems - and that he had the habit of lighting up a cigarette outside in the evenings.

Keplinger says that apparently the man suffered a seizure or passed out, and pulled the oxygen tank loose near the lit cigarette.

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