By Associated Press - Sunday, June 14, 2020

EASTON, Pa. (AP) - A 73-year-old woman died two days after a fire in her eastern Pennsylvania home that authorities said involved an oxygen canister, authorities said.

The Lehigh County coroner’s office said Mary Orwan, 73, was pronounced dead of inhalation injury complications and burns shortly after 8 p.m. Saturday at Lehigh Valley Hospital, Cedar Crest.

The coroner said she had been smoking a cigarette while on supplemental oxygen when the oxygen canister caught fire at about 6:30 p.m. Thursday in her Williams Township home. The death was ruled accidental.



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