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Blaze causes $25K in damage
Jump to full article: Gaithersburg (MD) Gazette, 2010-01-07
Author: Natalie McGill * Staff Writer
Intro: A Landover woman who was smoking a cigarette while using an oxygen tank is alleged to be the cause of an early morning apartment fire Monday that hospitalized her and resulted in thousands of dollars in damage, according to Prince George's County fire officials.
Forty firefighters responded about 3:30 a.m. to a blaze in a terrace-level apartment at a three-story garden-style apartment building in the 3400 block of Dodge Park Road, according to a fire department release. The unit is inside the Kings Square Apartments complex.
Firefighters extinguished the fire in 30 minutes and evacuated 40 residents from the building, according to the release.
The woman, who was in her 50s, was last listed in "fair condition" in a local hospital for smoke and burn injuries
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