The AP had this on the wire from New London, Connecticut, this morning: A spark from a defibrillator set a woman's clothing on fire when a paramedic tried to restart her heart in an ambulance... Brenda Jewett, 47, was pronounced dead at a hospital Monday... Neither the paramedic nor other members of the ambulance crew were injured by the fire...

"I've been in this business 20 years and I've never heard of something like this," said Leonard Guercia Jr., the state's EMS director. Mary Newman of the National Center for Early Defibrillation in Pittsburgh said she doubted the fire or the defibrillator caused Jewett's death.

"When you defibrillate a person, they are already dead," she said.