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Vt. Police: Woman Set Self on Fire at Gas Station

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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.

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