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Oxygen tank, cigarette sparks fire

Flames broke out in a Pomona Street home

Updated: Thursday, 28 Feb 2013, 8:57 PM EST
Published : Thursday, 28 Feb 2013, 2:32 PM EST

  • By Angie Angers

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) -- One man is being treated for serious burns following a house fire on Pomona  Street in Providence.

The flames broke out on Thursday morning, after a man who has trouble breathing and uses an oxygen tank caught fire while trying to smoke a cigarette.

A woman and two children escaped the house unharmed.

There is no word on the condition of the victim.

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