Dec 27, 2024
A 67-year-old man found on fire at Penn Station was rushed to the hospital with burn injuries Friday, cops said. A passerby alerted two MTA police officers that a man was on fire at the bustling Midtown transit hub near W. 34th St. around 8:10 p.m., police said. The man was on fire when police found him near the entrance to the Nos. 1, 2 and 3 trains, cops said. Medics transported him to Weill Cornell Medical Center. He suffered burns to both of his legs and upper body and was reported to be in stable condition at the center’s burn unit, according to an NYPD spokesperson, who added the man was “conscious and alert.” It’s unclear how the senior became ablaze. Police are working with the MTA to review surveillance camera footage, and will be speaking more to the man when he is in proper condition to be interviewed. Police did not immediately provide more details about the man’s identity. The Penn Station incident comes fast on the heels of Sunday’s tragedy that shocked the nation, where a woman died after a man set her clothes on fire while she was sleeping aboard a subway car at the Coney Island-Stillwell Ave. station in Brooklyn, then callously fanned the flames with a shirt, according to police. Police arrested Sebastian Zapeta, a Guatemalan migrant who had been living in a Brooklyn men’s shelter.
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