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An elderly man who was apparently smoking a cigarette while riding his bicycle home died Thursday after his clothes caught fire on a residential Bethpage street, officials said.
Joseph Rusin, 87, of Bethpage, was seen by a passing motorist at noon engulfed in flames and rolling on the ground on the front lawn of a home on Burkhardt Avenue, police said.
The motorist, a FedEx driver, used a fire extinguisher from his truck to put out the flames, officials said.
http://www.newsday.com/iphone/ny-libike0313,0,7563838.story
he was probably looking at this and was burned by the hot