JESSUP, Md. -- A man was critically burned when vapors from a gas tank he had been handling ignited near a fire, Anne Arundel County fire officials said.
Officials say the 33-year-old man was removing a gas tank from a vehicle in Jessup on Tuesday afternoon, but walked away to warm up near a barrel with a fire burning inside.
Vapors from the gasoline ignited, catching the man's clothing on fire and he rolled on the ground to extinguish the flames.
Officials said a friend drove the man to a hospital and he was later transferred to Johns Hopkins Bayview burn center with burns on 40 percent of his body.
Firefighters put out a small grass fire in the area of Route 175 and Sellner Road that started when the man rolled on the ground to extinguish the fire on his clothes.
