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Old March 13th 09, 12:53 AM posted to rec.bicycles.rides
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Elderly bicyclist badly injured after catching fire
BY MATTHEW CHAYES



4:37 PM EDT, March 12, 2009

An octogenarian bicyclist who caught fire during a ride home from the
grocery in Bethpage has been hospitalized in critical condition with burns
over half his body, a fire official said Thursday.

Investigators believe that a lit cigarette Joseph Rusin was smoking or a
lighter he was carrying caused his nylon jacket to burn, said Vincent
McManus of the Nassau County Fire Marshal's Office.

"At some point, he becomes aware that his clothing is on fire," McManus
said.

The flames were put out by a FedEx driver who saw the burning man near 40
Burkhardt Ave. and used an extinguisher from the delivery truck, McManus
said.

A witness who saw a fire from down the block, and then saw it was a man on
fire, called 911, McManus said.

"She's very shaken by the incident," McManus said.

Rusin, who was born in 1921 and lives on Meade Avenue, had been coming back
from a trip to a King Kullen in Bethpage for bread and chopped meat. He was
in critical condition at Nassau University Medical Center in East Meadow.

Although authorities do not believe the blaze is criminal, McManus asked
anyone who saw the fire to call the police tip line at 800-244-TIPS.

Copyright © 2009, Newsday Inc.


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Old March 13th 09, 12:57 PM posted to rec.bicycles.rides
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I'd think that there is at least as much chance that the cigarette
came from a car window as from the victim himself.

Saw a follow-up report on the local news last night. They're saying,
matter-of-factly- that he was smoking while riding. It also looks like he
may have had some plastic grocery bags hanging around his handlebars. I'd
imagine those things are pretty flammable.


 




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