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Cops: Nassau man set hospital gurney afire

A hospital emergency room patient was arrested after he became agitated early Friday and set his gurney afire, Nassau police said.

Patrick Callahan, 26, of Levittown, had to be restrained by staff at the Nassau University Medical Center in East Meadow when he became uncooperative about 2:20 a.m., police said.

Inside a room with two other patients, Callahan then took a lighter from his...

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