Martinsville man smoking while using oxygen killed in early morning fire, police say
Man pronounced dead at hospital
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Posted: 03/19/2013
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MARTINSVILLE, Ind. - A Martinsville man killed in an early morning apartment fire had been smoking while on oxygen, police said.
Officers were called to 30 South Drive just before 5 a.m. on a report of a fire and found the man unconscious on a bed with a cigarette burning on a blanket next to him.
Police and firefighters attempted CPR, but the man was pronounced dead at Indiana University Health Morgan Hospital.
The fire damage was limited to a burn hole in the man's mattress and some blankets.
The man's name had not been released Tuesday.
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