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WATCH: NYPD Searching For Man Who Started Blaze at Staten Island Gas Station, Seriously Injuring Bystander


The NYPD is looking for a man who started a fire at a Staten Island gas station, a blaze that seriously injured a man nearby.

It was reported around 2 a.m. Monday at a gas station on Richmond Avenue in Staten Island.

The NYPD released video showing a man filling a gas can, then spraying fuel around the pump, setting a piece of paper aflame and using it to ignite the spilled fuel into a blaze that flared up around the gas pumps.

Police say the gas station’s fire extinguisher system put out the flames, but a 21-year-old man suffered internal injuries. He’s hospitalized in serious, but stable, condition.

The NYPD says the man who started the fire arrived in a blue minivan.

Submit tips to police by calling Crime Stoppers at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477), visiting http://www.nypdcrimestoppers.com, or texting 274637 (CRIMES) then entering TIP577.

(AP)



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