BURLINGTON, Vt. -
A woman is dead after a Burlington gas station clerk says she poured gasoline on herself and lit a match.
It happened at the Champlain Farms Gas Station off of North Avenue in Burlington around noon.
According to a clerk, the woman came into the store and prepaid for gas. She then went back out to her car, poured gasoline on herself and lit a match.
This situation might have caused severe destruction if the gas pumps would have blown up.
According to another clerk, the manager shut off power to the pumps and grabbed a fire extinguisher hoping to save the woman's life. Fellow employees are calling her a hero.
"Kasey grabbed the fire extinguisher, ran out there and put it out. And grabbed the woman by her belt so you know, she wouldn't catch fire again," says Andi Brown, a gas station clerk.
At this time police are not releasing the woman's name or if she had any mental illness.
