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Friday, December 2, 2011

home fires are often caused women smokers

WEST Mayfield - Fire officials said a house fire Wednesday that killed a woman Mayfield West may have started when the woman was smoking and the consumption of oxygen.
West Mayfield Fire Chief Lou Petit said firefighters were called to the home of Norma Jean J. Strait Finney, 75, around 23:30 Wednesday, after neighbors saw smoke in the house.

John Street resident Richard Taylor said he heard a knock at his door Wednesday night and when he went to see who was there, saw the flames in the window of the increase in Finney salon.
"I (my daughter) said," I'll take Ms. Finney, "Taylor said Thursday." I had plans to tear down the door and then just when I was ready to cross the street, the fire came. "
The exact circumstances of the fire in the house still under investigation, said little, but the fire was a cigarette lighter in the house. An autopsy was performed Thursday afternoon, but Beaver County Coroner Terri Tatalovic-Rossi said Finney's death is still awaiting additional test results.
Grand son of Frances Finney Finney said Holler had emphysema and requires the use of an oxygen tank, but the cigarette was in spite of family members.
"We tried to tell him to cut his smoking," said Holler. "He said he had smoked 25 years, and they would do what he wanted."
Few Finney said firefighters found the body with his beloved pet Chihuahua, Angel, in the living room of the house where the fire broke out.
"We loved this little thing," said Holler dog of 6 years. "Every day when I arrived, he jumped on the couch and sat next to me."
Holler, who lives a stone's throw from the house of Finney, John Street, he spent almost every day with the woman he called his aunt and helped her care after she fell ill.
"I'm going every morning, and continued until it begins to dark," said Holler.
A glance at the clock beside her on Thursday morning, "said he was going to cry that day for a home visit by Finney missing.
"I have now," he said.
Holler said that Finney's health began to deteriorate after her husband, Richard Finney, died seven years ago.
"If you lost Dick, I'm sure they really die hard, because you could really rely on each other," said Taylor. "If you talk with Dick, spoke to her, if you talk to him, talking about sex."
Taylor said that Finney was very close and weekly trips were Rogers Community Auction in Rogers, Ohio, who attended a cabin in the mountains.
House in Mayfield West, Holler said Finney was also very close to his neighbors and friends have made everyone around her.
Taylor, who lives in the street, said Finney was the "cornerstone" of the community.
"It was probably one of the nicest people I meet on my way," said Taylor. "Some people do not even know who does not live closer to them, but Ms. Finney let you know that you are next. If you ever need anything, she was there. "

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