Wheels of Fire

This kind of thing could never happen in the Captain's home port, where cigarettes are way too expensive for the wheelchair-bound homeless population to afford.

"The patient stated he was wheelchair-bound and was smoking a cigarette, which he thought he had extinguished and discarded into the brush, which rapidly ignited and caught his wheelchair on fire," authorities said in a police report.

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Firefighters knocked down the blaze while Ormond Beach police and the Volusia County Beach Patrol searched for the man. The severely burned man was located around the corner north of the fire.

An ambulance took the him to Halifax Health Medical Center in Daytona Beach in critical condition. The victim was transferred a few hours later to Orlando Regional Medical Center.

[News 13]