Man Sitting In Wheelchair Goes Up In Flames After Falling Asleep With Cigarette In His Hand

New York Post reports that an American man in a wheelchair has been singed in Midtown Manhattan, USA, early Saturday in the wake of nodding off with a cigarette in his grasp. 


The 43-year-elderly person was sitting outside a structure on East 53rd Street close to fifth Avenue soon after 7 a.m. at the point when he nodded off holding the lit cigarette, authorities said. 

The napping smoker at that point dropped the consuming barge in on his lap, where it started to singe him, specialists said. 

Crisis responders suppressed the little burst in under 20 minutes — yet his wheelchair torched to its edge. 

He was taken to Mount Sinai St. Luke's with severely charred areas on his legs, police said. 

"His arms were singed terrible," a close by nourishment truck seller disclosed to The Post. "I saw a great deal of smoke."

December 09, 2019