{"id":1176,"date":"2014-01-22T22:01:57","date_gmt":"2014-01-22T22:01:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oxygenworldwide.wordpress.com\/?p=1176"},"modified":"2023-05-08T09:38:27","modified_gmt":"2023-05-08T09:38:27","slug":"playing-with-fire-and-oxygen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oxygenworldwide.com\/es\/playing-with-fire-and-oxygen\/","title":{"rendered":"Playing with fire and oxygen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are so many articles saying do not smoke when using medical oxygen and the below article shows exactly why experts advise you not to smoke:<\/p>\n<h1>Woman left fighting for life after sparking huge explosion by lighting a cigarette while wearing an oxygen mask<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><b>The 47-year-old was lighting up at home at 7.30am in the morning<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>The flame set light to oxygen coming from her medical mask<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>She is in intensive care with facial burns after being taken to hospital<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/i\/pix\/2013\/12\/07\/article-2519834-00AA1B121000044C-981_306x312.jpg\" alt=\"The unnamed woman tried to light her cigarette too close to her medical oxygen apparatus\" \/>A woman is fighting for her life after she lit a cigarette while wearing an oxygen mask, sparking an explosion.<br \/>\nThe incident happened as the unnamed 47-year-old attempted to light up at her home in Heywood, Manchester just after 7.30am on Friday morning.<br \/>\nAs she brought the light to her cigarette it set fire to the oxygen emitting from the nearby medical equipment, causing the gas to explode in her face.<br \/>\nThe blast left her with severe burns and started a fire in a first-floor bedroom of the terraced house in Cartridge Street, Greater Manchester.<br \/>\nEmergency services were called to the scene but the fire was out by the time they arrived.<br \/>\nThe woman received treatment in the house and was taken to Fairfield Hospital in Bury. Doctors then opted to put the woman into an induced coma.<br \/>\nShe remained in intensive care for treatment last night. Shocked neighbours woke to find several fire engines and police cars in their street following the accident.<br \/>\nFrances Tennant, 85, who lives opposite her, said: &#8216;I do see her and her husband. They seem friendly. It&#8217;s a bit of a shock that this has happened and I hope she&#8217;s OK.<br \/>\n&#8216;I could see police cars on the corner and plenty of activity with the fire service and I wondered what was going on.&#8217;<br \/>\nAnother neighbour, who did not wish to be named, said: &#8216;They seem like a nice family. My boyfriend knows them better than me but we often say hello.<br \/>\n&#8216;The fire engines woke me up this morning just before eight o&#8217;clock and I wondered what had happened.&#8217;<br \/>\nThe family of the woman, who has not been named, declined to comment.<br \/>\nFind out about OxygenWorldwide : <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oxygenworldwide.com\">www.oxygenworldwide.com<\/a><br \/>\narticle By\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/home\/search.html?s=&amp;authornamef=Aaron+Sharp\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">AARON SHARP<\/a><br \/>\n<strong>PUBLISHED:<\/strong>\u00a014:35, 7 December 2013<br \/>\nRead more:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-2519834\/Woman-left-fighting-life-sparking-huge-explosion-lighting-cigarette-wearing-oxygen-mask.html#ixzz2r5AmoP3e\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-2519834\/Woman-left-fighting-life-sparking-huge-explosion-lighting-cigarette-wearing-oxygen-mask.html#ixzz2r5AmoP3e<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are so many articles saying do not smoke when using medical oxygen and the below article shows exactly why [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5288,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":2,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,177],"tags":[35,91,115,159,178,179,834],"class_list":["post-1176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-portable-oxygen","category-news","tag-oxygen","tag-health-2","tag-oxygenworldwide","tag-uk","tag-portable-oxygen-concentrator","tag-smoking","tag-oxigeno-medicinal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oxygenworldwide.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oxygenworldwide.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oxygenworldwide.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oxygenworldwide.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oxygenworldwide.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1176"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.oxygenworldwide.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5289,"href":"https:\/\/www.oxygenworldwide.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1176\/revisions\/5289"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oxygenworldwide.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oxygenworldwide.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oxygenworldwide.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oxygenworldwide.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}