Officials: Microwave sparked fatal fire
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Fire officials say an elderly blind woman killed in a West Philadelphia apartment fire started the blaze by putting aluminum foil in a microwave oven.
Officials say 80-year-old Nicole Swaayze was pronounced dead in her fourth-floor unit in the Katie B. Jackson Apartments. The 59 units of the Philadelphia Housing Authority senior facility were evacuated after the fire broke out about 6 p.m. Thursday. Two other residents were treated for minor injuries.
Housing authority spokesman Kirk Dorn says Swaayze normally had an aide coming in to cook for her.
Fire Commissioner Lloyd Ayers says the victim put food wrapped in aluminum foil into the microwave, touching off the fire which was contained to the one-bedroom apartment.
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