A man was flown to a hospital after suffering serious burn injuries from a fire he caused while pouring gas on a brush fire in the Fallston area early Monday afternoon, fire investigators said.
Robert Williams, 45, of Baltimore, was burning brush and logs in a cattle feeder in the 2300 block of Baldwin Mill Road, near Charles Street, at about 12:45 p.m., and "just doused it down with gas, ignited it and it caused a flash fire," Senior Deputy State Fire Marshal Oliver Alkire said Monday afternoon.
He suffered mostly second-degree burns and some third-degree burns on 8 percent of his body and is in stable condition at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center in Baltimore, where he was flown by Maryland State Police helicopter, Alkire said.
Williams spends time at the Fallston address although he resides in Baltimore, Alkire said.
The burns were on the victim's hands, arms and face, according to a Fire Marshal's Office notice of investigation issued late Monday afternoon, which stated Williams was in "stable" condition at Bayview.
"We definitely do not want people using accelerant to burn brush," Alkire said about the incident.