{"id":136295,"date":"2026-02-17T17:12:25","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T17:12:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/136295\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T17:12:25","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T17:12:25","slug":"man-sets-himself-on-fire-during-domestic-spat-on-manhattan-street-girlfriend-burned-putting-out-flames","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/136295\/","title":{"rendered":"Man sets himself on fire during domestic spat on Manhattan street, girlfriend burned putting out flames"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 27-year-old man was hospitalized with severe burns all over his body early Tuesday after he purposely set himself on fire during an argument with his girlfriend, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/2026\/01\/01\/nypd-ends-2025-with-historic-decreases-in-murders-and-shootings-uptick-in-rapes\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">police<\/a> said.<\/p>\n<p>The man\u2019s gal pal, also 27, suffered burns to her hands as she tried to put the flames out, cops said.<\/p>\n<p>The couple was arguing near their car on Cabrini Blvd. near W. 177th St. in Washington Heights when the man doused himself with gasoline about 12:30 a.m., official said.\u00a0He then set himself on fire.<\/p>\n<p>As the woman tried to put the fire out with her bare hands, the flames spread to the man\u2019s car, which also caught fire, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>Firefighters quickly arrived and put out the blaze.<\/p>\n<p>Medics rushed the man to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nychealthandhospitals.org\/locations\/harlem\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Harlem Hospital<\/a> with extensive burns. He is expected to survive.<\/p>\n<p>The woman was taken to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nyp.org\/locations\/newyork-presbyterian-columbia-university-medical-center\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New York-Presbyterian Hospital Columbia<\/a> with burns to her hands.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 27-year-old man was hospitalized with severe burns all over his body early Tuesday after he purposely set&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":136296,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[262,263,266,85,267,75,84,83,9,24,264,12,63,261,265],"class_list":["post-136295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-city","tag-county","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-latest-headlines","tag-local-news","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-county","tag-news","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-crime","tag-sub-county-region"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136295\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/136296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}