BOCA RATON, Fla. (AP) -- A 62-year-old Boca Raton woman died Friday after lighting a cigarette while using an oxygen tank, officials said.
Rosalyn Sedlak's death is being termed accidental by Palm Beach County sheriff's officials. She was smoking in a bedroom of her 87-year-old mother's home when the fire started and managed to get into a nearby bathroom, but collapsed there and was dead when firefighters arrived.
"You just don't smoke in an oxygen-enriched atmosphere,'' fire-rescue Capt. Don DeLucia told The Palm Beach Post for its Saturday editions. "The public has to realize that if they absolutely have to smoke, turn the oxygen off.''
Sedlak's mother, Frances Winkler, was distraught but uninjured. Sedlak moved in with her mother after undergoing open-heart surgery about two years ago, neighbors said.
