TOLEDO, Ohio — A Toledo man whom officials believe was smoking while using a home-oxygen device has died after a small fire in a Consaul Street mobile home.
Toledo Fire and Rescue Department responded Thursday to a 3:15 a.m. report of a home fire at the Cypress Point Mobile Home Park, 2510 Consaul St., to find the man unresponsive in a mobile home where there also was a small fire.
The man was taken to Mercy St. Vincent Medical Center where he later died from his injuries.
Authorities have not released the man's name pending an autopsy by the Lucas County Coroner's Office.
The incident was the city's first fatal fire of the new year, but Toledo firefighters have already responded to more than 1,100 emergency incidents in 2022, with over 200 in the last 24 hours alone.
These have included two other structure fires, both of which were in vacant buildings.