A 55-year-old Gillette woman characterized as “a giving person” who “doesn’t know a stranger” was seriously burned in an early morning house fire Sunday and is fighting for survival in a Denver hospital intensive care unit.
Tammy Jo Schafer was rushed to a hospital by paramedics and sedated because of the extent of the burns and pain involved, her daughter told Cowboy State Daily. Due to complications related to COPD, she has been placed on a ventilator.
Schafer is being cared for at the University of Colorado Health Burn and Frostbite Center on the Anschutz Medical Campus in Denver…