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Elderly bicyclist catches fire, dies
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,...
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