One person was badly burned when a North Carolina nursing home resident using oxygen tried to smoke a cigarette, officials say.
Firefighters responded at 3 a.m. Saturday to reports of a fire at a “large nursing care facility” in Burlington and found EMS already evacuating residents, according to a news release from the Burlington Fire Department.
No fire was found in the building, but “light to moderate” smoke was seen coming from a room and a hallway, where firefighters found a patient “who had been severely burned,” the fire department said.
