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Fire victim was smoking while using oxygen 

The DuPage County Sheriff's Office is continuing its investigation of Monday's apartment fire at 5750 Abbey Drive in unincorporated DuPage County near Lisle that took the life of an 80-year old man.

Ralph J. Lufty, who lived in the apartment in the Abbey Apartments at Four Lakes complex, just east of Benedictine University, was taken to Advocate Good Samaritan Hospital where he was pronounced dead a short time later . . .

According to a sheriff's office release, Lufty had been smoking while wearing an oxygen tube, which was highly flammable, causing the fire.

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