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In case you weren't sure - playing with a cigarette lighter while pumping gas = a bad idea.
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LA PLATA, N.M. (AP) - A 19-year-old New Mexico woman is hospitalized with burns after catching on fire last night while pumping gas.
Witnesses say Brianna Sanchez was fiddling with a cigarette lighter at a gas station in La Plata and casually filling up her car when flames shot out of the tank.
A person at the scene put out the blaze with a fire extinguisher.
A spokesman for the San Juan County, New Mexico, sheriff's office calls it a "freak accident"
Sanchez was taken to the hospital with burns to her face and upper torso.
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LA PLATA, N.M. (AP) - A 19-year-old New Mexico woman is hospitalized with burns after catching on fire last night while pumping gas.
Witnesses say Brianna Sanchez was fiddling with a cigarette lighter at a gas station in La Plata and casually filling up her car when flames shot out of the tank.
A person at the scene put out the blaze with a fire extinguisher.
A spokesman for the San Juan County, New Mexico, sheriff's office calls it a "freak accident"
Sanchez was taken to the hospital with burns to her face and upper torso.