The Friday after a holiday is always a busy time at Penn Station, but this week, things were more chaotic than usual after a man was found on fire.
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) police were notified on Friday, Dec. 27, around 8:10 p.m. local time that a man was ablaze inside of the bustling New York City railroad station, a spokesperson for the New York City Police Department (NYPD) told PEOPLE in a statement.
MTA police responded to the scene and located the 67-year-old man, whose identity has not yet been publicized.
Police also did not share where in Penn Station the man was, though CBS News reported that he was located in a “passageway.”
The man, who had suffered “burn injuries to both of his legs and upper body,” was then transported to the nearby NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center, the NYPD spokesperson said.
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When he was being transported, his burns were serious but not life-threatening, a spokesperson for the New York Fire Department told the The New York Times. He is currently listed in critical condition, per the NYPD.
It is not clear what caused the fire and whether there was any criminality behind it. No arrests have been made in relation to the incident, and the investigation is ongoing, the NYPD spokesperson said.
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The Penn Station fire follows another disturbing incident involving a person on fire while using N.Y.C. transportation earlier this month.
On Sunday, Dec. 22, a man allegedly set an unidentified woman on fire as she slept on a stationary F train at the Coney Island-Stillwell Avenue subway terminal in Brooklyn, fanning the flames with a shirt and then sitting down and watching as she burned to death, according to police.
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