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An elderly Arlington woman has serious burns after she barely escaped a house fire early this morning. The fire that began when she fell asleep while smoking -- while hooked up to a supplemental oxygen tank. Arlington Fire Battalion Chief David Stapp says the woman was able to call 911 herself. She and a tenant were in the home near the UT Arlington campus -- the tenant is okay but the woman is being treated at an Arlington hospital. Firefighters say it could have been much worse -- because oxygen fires can be explosively hot and fast-moving. |