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Saturday, May 5, 2012 | 1:50 p.m.
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A woman on an oxygen tank and smoking in bed was burned Saturday morning, fire officials said.
Las Vegas Fire & Rescue crews were sent about 11:40 a.m. to a home on the 700 block of Mayfield Street, near Washington Avenue and Decatur Boulevard, said Tim Szymanski, spokesman for the fire department.
Szymanski said the woman, who was on a medical oxygen tank, was transported to a hospital with a minor first-degree burn after lighting a cigarette in her bed, he said.
It appears the woman had oxygen on her clothes and skin that helped fuel a small fire, Szymanski said. Her husband lying next to her called to report the incident.
“If you’re on medical oxygen you just don’t smoke, period,” Szymanski said.
This is a good example how Americans do not care about their health, and it only ends up costing the taxpayers billions of dollars a year. Why do you think this lady was on oxygen in the first place, and she put herself and husband in danger because she still cannot quit smoking. This lady alone is probably costing taxpayers 10's of thousand annually, and its not matter of you paying your dues, believe me I know you did not contribute that much during your working days.
Another Harvard graduate costing taxpayers money.
DuH!
She is not an outlier. This happens way too often.
Fricken hilarious.. Peoples stupidity still amazes me after all this time.
I know a lady from my home care agency who goes to some woman's apartment who is on serious oxygen and the woman CHAIN SMOKES!! The oxygen is in the same room where the woman smokes. I would never work under those conditions; too dangerous. They don't pay me enough money to be put in those situations. The sad thing is the smoking woman has a right to smoke in her residence....no matter how many lectures she has received from her doctor or the fire department.
Wonderful North Las Vegas. The quality keeps getting better.
Millions of them, literally. The same old tar addicts who subjected their kids to second-hand smoke. The same old addicts who take from social welfare programs but pay little to nothing in--constantly on assistance of one form or another.
Reminds me of a woman I witnessed in Laughlin dragging her oxygen tank through the casino, the mask around her neck, smoking up a storm.
Not a recipe for longevity.