Last night a 50 year old woman from Laurel, DE. was sitting in her home with her Daughter in another room. She was on an oxygen tank and she fired up a cigarette and the tank exploded.
Her Daughter heard the explosion and ran into the room where her Mother was on fire. She wrapped her up in a blanket and dragged her outside of the home and away from the fire. She attempted CPR but it didn't help, she was gone.
The Delaware State Police arrived in masses thinking it was a fire bomb explosion but quickly learned what had really happened.
DON'T SMOKE AND USE OXYGEN!
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Mr. Bobby was hoping this was an outrageous tongue-in-cheek, satire headline like he uses sometimes. He was horrified to find out this was a true story. Thank god no kids were in the immediate blast radius, and a hug for the person who tried so hard with the cpr....if you aren't familiar with what happens when you put these two things together, Google Apollo 1. Thoughts and prayers to the family (I still want to think this story is just a bad joke, though..)
ReplyDeleteI'm sorry for the family, but what are these people thinking? Smokers think that the warnings are just to get people to stop smoking, that nothing can really happen. I have known firefighters and paramedics who will light up anywhere. Not neccasarily around oxygen, but dangerous places none the less. Like it's a god given right to put there wants above everyone elses. This has got to change. And i'm not trying to single out this group, but to show the spectrum of the lack of attention to our surroundings.
ReplyDeleteI think the warning on this blog should be three times the size. flames and gas do not mix. Yes, oxygen is a gas. Other wise, you might cause pain to your family that can never be taken back.
Wow.
ReplyDeleteI too was hoping this was tongue in cheek Mr. Bobby.
That poor woman who tried to save her Mom.
I was in the home medical industry for years. Oxygen is not an explosive it is an accelerant. The only think I can think of if she had put hair spray on recently or used petroleum jelly on her nose. I had three people that the nasal cannula popped and started burning but never have i heard of a canister exploding.
ReplyDeleteGood post Joe. That's the first thing they tell you when your on oxygen - keep all smoking and any fire well away from the oxygen. Guess this women didn't believe the warnings and she paid for her mistake, big time.
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2:50. When I gamble it is a $20 chip at the Borgata....once again-refer to Apollo One....the flame was from the cig/lighter/even burning fabric spark-O2 and flame are as bad a combination as Ike and Tina turner (and if you have a NASA/scientific link demonstrating otherwise-show me...but I am not putting a chip on your call until I read it from somewhere else). Respectfully..
ReplyDeleteHere we go again with the sensationalism. No different than the Daily Times. Yes the overall message is important not to smoke and use oxygen, but let's have a little compassion for the loss of life and dispense with the sarcasm (woman explodes)
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The expected response to a headline as such. Comical... The only thing missing is the cartoon Calvin and Hobbes portrayed imagination.
The female out of Laurel did not explode. The oxygen tank(s) or something in the room did rather.
--Tod
Again, the fact that this is the theory of natural selection just amuses me. I Love it.
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ReplyDeleteIf this had been a fictitious piece of irony, it might have been an amusing anecdote. The woman died. Your comment, "I love it," lets us know that natural selection does not always weed out those who so richly deserve it.