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Patient wearing oxygen mask sparks fire
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| 7/14/06
| AP
Posted on 07/15/2006 9:23:46 AM PDT by freespirited
DALLAS - A patient who was wearing an oxygen mask tried to light a cigarette in his hospital room, sparking a fire that forced the evacuation of more than 100 patients, destroyed the room and melted medical equipment, officials said.
A nurse at Methodist Dallas Medical Center rescued the man from his burning bed shortly after the Thursday night blaze started. He suffered serious burns and was taken to the burn unit another Dallas hospital, but no one else was hurt, hospital officials said.
"He somehow got the strength to smoke a cigarette with a nonremovable mask," Dallas Fire-Rescue Capt. Paul Martinez said. "I don't know how he did it, but he did it."
Hospital sprinklers kept the blaze mostly in one room, said fire Lt. Joel Lavender.
Officials didn't release the man's name or condition Friday, citing medical privacy laws
TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: hospitalfire; smoking
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To: freespirited
To: freespirited
I think I saw this in a movie once...
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posted on
07/15/2006 9:25:49 AM PDT
by
in hoc signo vinces
("Houston, TX...a waiting quagmire for jihadis. American gals are worth fighting for!")
To: freespirited
An addiction so powerful that even self preservation is secondary to the "fix".
4
posted on
07/15/2006 9:28:15 AM PDT
by
JimRed
("Hey, hey, Teddy K., how many girls did you drown today?" (Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help m)
To: in hoc signo vinces
I have seen this IN PERSON more than once. SWOOOSh . Eyebrows, eye lashed and hair boarding face instantly gone. The guy's skin had very little actual damage except where the nasal cannula tubing melted into his cheeks.
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posted on
07/15/2006 9:29:08 AM PDT
by
tertiary01
(The latest business model: Socialize the costs- privatize the profits,)
To: tertiary01; All
Sorry about all the typos. I guess I need more coffee!
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posted on
07/15/2006 9:30:58 AM PDT
by
tertiary01
(The latest business model: Socialize the costs- privatize the profits,)
To: whtabtbill
Is stupidity becoming the national pasttime lately?The idiot probibly cleans his guns while they're loaded too.
7
posted on
07/15/2006 9:33:43 AM PDT
by
Farmer Dean
(Every time a toilet flushes,another liberal gets his brains.)
To: JimRed
"An addiction so powerful that even self preservation is secondary to the 'fix'."
But it must be okay. Rush and a lot of Freepers
defend their right to hurt themselves by doing it.
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posted on
07/15/2006 9:34:01 AM PDT
by
righttackle44
(The most dangerous weapon in the world is a Marine with his rifle and the American people behind him)
To: tertiary01
This happens more than you would think.
About three times a year there is a new item about somebody smoking while on O2.
Then there was the time some guy blew up his house while doing this.
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posted on
07/15/2006 9:35:14 AM PDT
by
Yorlik803
( When are we going to draw a line a say"this far and no farther")
To: tertiary01
What was the hair boarding face? hair, beard and face?
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posted on
07/15/2006 9:36:06 AM PDT
by
jwalburg
(It wasn't the Executive that Thomas Jefferson referred to as "the Despotic Branch.")
To: JimRed
An addiction so powerful that even self preservation is secondary to the "fix"Or a person so stupid as to not realize that oxygen and fire don't mix.
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posted on
07/15/2006 9:37:49 AM PDT
by
Just another Joe
(Warning: FReeping can be addictive and helpful to your mental health)
To: righttackle44
But it must be okay. Rush and a lot of Freepers defend their right to hurt themselves by doing it.A lot of us FReepers also defend your right to go rock climbing and fall to a horrible maiming.
Any big difference you see?
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posted on
07/15/2006 9:39:41 AM PDT
by
Just another Joe
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To: jwalburg
Bangs, a short beard, neck hair and even some chest hair. Singed his cotton shirt collar too.
He actually had two nasal cannulas stuck in his nose connected to Lindy Walkers turned up to their max O2 output.
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posted on
07/15/2006 9:43:46 AM PDT
by
tertiary01
(The latest business model: Socialize the costs- privatize the profits,)
To: freespirited
"He somehow got the strength to smoke a cigarette with a nonremovable mask," Dallas Fire-Rescue Capt. Paul Martinez said. "I don't know how he did it, but he did it." Give it another twenty years and we'll start getting reports of aging hippies with oxygen masks trying to light a roach.
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posted on
07/15/2006 9:45:18 AM PDT
by
Mr Ramsbotham
(Laws against sodomy are honored in the breech.)
To: righttackle44
But it must be okay. Rush and a lot of Freepers defend their right to hurt themselves by doing it. It isn't so much that ... it's just that they're beginning to promote smoking as a positive good, simply because it's under attack by the left.
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posted on
07/15/2006 9:47:14 AM PDT
by
Mr Ramsbotham
(Laws against sodomy are honored in the breech.)
To: Just another Joe
A lot of us FReepers also defend your right to go rock climbing and fall to a horrible maiming. Any big difference you see? Yes ... the fact that no one is trying to pretend that rock climbing doesn't carry a significant risk.
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posted on
07/15/2006 9:48:33 AM PDT
by
Mr Ramsbotham
(Laws against sodomy are honored in the breech.)
To: righttackle44
But it must be okay. Rush and a lot of Freepers defend their right to hurt themselves by doing it.I'm gonna quit when I have to wear a non-removable oxygen mask.
To: Mr Ramsbotham
Yes ... the fact that no one is trying to pretend that rock climbing doesn't carry a significant risk.I haven't heard very many people saying that smoking doesn't carry a significant risk.
No w if we're talking about ETS, that's a different story.
How many people not rock climbers are killed by rock climbers, or rocks dislodged by rock climbers, falling ON them?
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posted on
07/15/2006 9:51:54 AM PDT
by
Just another Joe
(Warning: FReeping can be addictive and helpful to your mental health)
To: Unruly Human
From my experience you WILL not quit even then.
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posted on
07/15/2006 9:52:53 AM PDT
by
tertiary01
(The latest business model: Socialize the costs- privatize the profits,)
To: Just another Joe
"A lot of us FReepers also defend your right to go rock climbing and fall to a horrible maiming.
Any big difference you see?"
Yeah. I don't go rock climbing, for one thing.
And I'm not stupid enough to put a demonstrated
poison and carcinogen voluntarily into my system,
for another.
I take it you do.
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posted on
07/15/2006 9:53:51 AM PDT
by
righttackle44
(The most dangerous weapon in the world is a Marine with his rifle and the American people behind him)
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