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Ohio-- Oakwood Village police are investigating after a man in a wheelchair caught on fire while smoking a cigarette and later died.
“We got the call April 17th, it was after lunchtime. It was for a wheelchair that was on fire,” said Detective Ed Thyret with the Oakwood Village Police Department.
Thyret was first to the scene.
“I arrived and noticed there was a wheelchair that was smoldering in front of the building with a male laying on the ground, facedown,” said Thyret.
Police say Joseph Konopa of Bedford was allegedly smoking outside the Grande Oaks nursing home while using an oxygen tank when his wheelchair caught fire.
Someone driving by noticed the flames and immediately called the police.
Police: Man in wheelchair caught on fire while smoking outside nursing home and died
OAKWOOD VILLAGE, Ohio– Oakwood Village police are investigating after a man in a wheelchair caught on fire while smoking a cigarette and later died. “We got the call April 17th, it was after …
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