It seems obvious that smoking while on oxygen can result in grave injury or death. Hearing about such a horrific case, many people reflexively default to victim blaming: It's sad, but they should have ...

EL PASO, Texas (KFOX14/CBS4) — The El Paso Fire Department said that Thursday's house fire that killed an elderly couple in the Lower Valley was accidental. According to investigators with the Fire ...

Mar. 23—It seems ironic that oxygen — the gas that makes life on earth possible — can also be extremely dangerous under certain circumstances. On Wednesday night, a 60-year-old woman died in a fire ...

FALL RIVER, Mass. (AP) — A fire that killed 10 people at a Massachusetts assisted-living facility was unintentionally caused by either someone smoking or an electrical issue with an oxygen machine, ...

It's a potentially fatal mixture: high levels of pure oxygen flowing through tubing, and the flame from a lit cigarette. In the wake of three fatal oxygen fires in York County since the beginning of ...

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) -- Firefighters said a woman's oxygen tank ignited while she was smoking, starting a fire in Pittsburgh's Beechview neighborhood. The fire destroyed the duplex on Pauline Avenue on ...

THE WARNING FROM FIREFIGHTERS. TORI SMOKING AND AN OXYGEN TANK. IT’S THE COMBINATION OF WATER SAY CAUSED FLAMES TO POUR FROM THIS DUPLEX. CRACKS COMING FROM THIS PAULINE AVENUE HOME AS FLAMES GUT THE ...