{"id":666241,"date":"2010-02-16T18:47:06","date_gmt":"2010-02-16T23:47:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chicagopressrelease.com\/?p=19291"},"modified":"2010-02-16T18:47:06","modified_gmt":"2010-02-16T23:47:06","slug":"woman-dies-after-oxygen-tank-caught-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/666241","title":{"rendered":"Woman dies after oxygen tank caught fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chicago &#8211; A 65-year-old South Side woman died Monday morning, more than a week after a small fire in her home that started when a cigarette ignited her oxygen tank.<\/p>\n<p>Patricia Sharp, 65, of 7250 S. Clyde Ave. was pronounced dead at 9:21 a.m. Monday at University of Chicago Hospitals, according to the Cook County Medical Examiner&#8217;s office.<\/p>\n<p>An autopsy Tuesday found that Sharp suffered smoke inhalation from a clothing fire at her home and her death was ruled an accident, according to the medical examiner&#8217;s office. <span id=\"more-19291\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>She also suffered from lung disease, which was a contributing factor in her death.<\/p>\n<p>The fire happened about 9 a.m. on on Feb. 6, when the woman&#8217;s oxygen tank was ignited by a cigarette, according to police.<\/p>\n<p>She suffered burns to her face and was taken to the hospital in critical condition.<\/p>\n<p>Read the original article from <a title=\"Woman Dies After Oxygen Tank Caught Fire\" href=\"http:\/\/www.myfoxchicago.com\/dpp\/news\/metro\/woman-dies-oxygen-tank-catches-fire-cigarette\"  rel='nofollow'>FOX Chicago News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Distributed via <a href=\"http:\/\/chicagopressrelease.com\" rel='nofollow'>Chicago Press Release Services<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/H5pWTNYyKo6yaSNqLoj3vFcR76U\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/H5pWTNYyKo6yaSNqLoj3vFcR76U\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/H5pWTNYyKo6yaSNqLoj3vFcR76U\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/H5pWTNYyKo6yaSNqLoj3vFcR76U\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.chicagopressrelease.com\/~ff\/windycitynews?a=ui6gvX-kvXA:E1-cjtgv2Fw:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/windycitynews?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.chicagopressrelease.com\/~ff\/windycitynews?a=ui6gvX-kvXA:E1-cjtgv2Fw:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/windycitynews?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.chicagopressrelease.com\/~ff\/windycitynews?a=ui6gvX-kvXA:E1-cjtgv2Fw:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/windycitynews?i=ui6gvX-kvXA:E1-cjtgv2Fw:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/windycitynews\/~4\/ui6gvX-kvXA\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chicago &#8211; A 65-year-old South Side woman died Monday morning, more than a week after a small fire in her home that started when a cigarette ignited her oxygen tank. Patricia Sharp, 65, of 7250 S. Clyde Ave. was pronounced dead at 9:21 a.m. Monday at University of Chicago Hospitals, according to the Cook County [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":288,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-666241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2NjP","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/288"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=666241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666241\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=666241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=666241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=666241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}