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Woman Smoking While Pumping Gas Ignites Fire, Burns Self And Car

POSTED: Monday, October 2, 2006
UPDATED: 11:07 am EDT October 2, 2006

A woman in Orange County, Fla., was injured when she ignited a fire while smoking a cigarette as she filled her car with gas, according to Local 6 News.


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Police said the woman was pumping gas at a Race Trac near the University of Central Florida when a cigarette butt sparked the fire.

Flames burned the gas pump and set her car on fire.

"The car is virtually ruined," a fire official at the scene said. "(It happened) just by doing something stupid by smoking while fueling her car."

Signs near the gas pump said "no smoking."

The woman will not be ticketed for the incident, Local 6 News reported.

Watch Local 6 News for more on this story.

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