By Jan Norman, The Orange County Register

A near-fatal home fire led Sonja Zozula to invent a product that she hopes will save lives. The San Clemente resident will receive this week her first shipment of LightSaver devices that illuminate doorways when a smoke alarm goes off. “Between 3,000 and 4,000 people die in a fire every year and 85 percent of these deaths are in homes,” Zozula says. “It only takes two minutes for smoke to become deadly in a fire and the doorway is often very quickly screened from view because of that smoke.”