Man sets himself on fire at University of California-Berkeley, police investigating

A man set himself on fire on the campus of the University of California, Berkeley on Wednesday afternoon, according to campus police.

The University of California Police Department (UCPD) said they received a call at roughly 4:17 p.m. about a person who was on fire.

The reported self-immolation took place on Sproul Plaza, the center of the campus.

The man reportedly sustained critical burns and was transported to a local hospital by Berkeley Fire Department officials. A female bystander who attempted to help him sustained unknown injuries.

An eyewitness said that the man's clothing was completely burned off, according to The Berkeley Scanner. The burned man was reportedly yelling and moaning.

Bystanders attempted to put the fire out by fanning their jackets on the man, who was eventually assisted by police officers and firefighters.

UCPD said in a statement to Fox News Digital that mental health professionals were on the scene.

Man sets himself on fire at University of California-Berkeley, police investigating

A man reportedly set himself on fire in Sproul Plaza at the University of California, Berkeley. The man was critically injured and taken to a hospital as police investigate the situation.

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Video of self-immolation: https://twitter.com/rawsalerts/status/1631122038051012608?s=42

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[Metatron]

Fuuck. That's so crazy to see. Poor fucker should have died. If he doesn't get infected, his shitty live is now even way shittier.

 

[CircuSphere]

Admittedly, I wouldn't be exactly jumping at the chance to get near a guy on fire.

Yeah I mean maybe if I had a blanket or a thick ass coat... but honestly once you have been engulfed in flames death is a mercy. Why 'save' him? So the public can spend 5 million dollars on skin grafts and he can live another 2 months in agony?

 

[Phalanges Mycologist]

I don't know, setting yourself on fire is like.... I wouldn't want to get close, who knows what drugs hes on or how crazy he is. He could set you on fire for helping.

That was more for general use, burn vicims are dicey at the best of times but self immolation even more so - I'm a trained Blacksmith and I am used to dealing with burns (comes with the job) and even compliant burn victims are nasty t deal with when shock kicks in. I saw a guy get a "Molten Salt Bath" spray who should not have been alive with that level of burn try to say he was OK just give him a fag and let him walk it off - parts of his bone structure where showing an where chard. It's only when the shock wore off he started to die, and that's a common thing in Burn victims.

Just to put it into context there are TWO deaths I don't wish on anyone that's Fire and Drowning, I dont care how much I hate a person if I can spare them those two deaths I will. They are the two ways of dying that are truly horrific, just so you have an idea post WW2 one of the main things the Soviets let be talked about was the use of flame weapons and the Soldiers who where flame unit troopers killed themselfs after the war. Doctors and Medics who deal with burns are the second most likely group to kill themselfs.

 

[Sparkling Yuzu]

Doctors and Medics who deal with burns are the second most likely group to kill themselfs.

I've heard that burn units are sound isolated bc they scream so much when being debrided. IDK if it's true.

 

[DamnWolves!]

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[Phalanges Mycologist]

I've heard that burn units are sound isolated bc they scream so much when being debrided. IDK if it's true.

Dedicates ones are, Burns are extremely painful. I am kinda inurned to small burns it just comes with the job but serious burns are something I have to be aware of and how to treat them and Burns are serious shit, there is no good way of dealing with them but it's all about managing the reaction the victim has, and covering the burns - I have skin contact blankets made from mylar with a burn gell in them designed to be used on anyone with a burn, and I paid to have one within arms reach in my own personal shop.

 

[LurkTrawl]

Was this a student or a homeless guy? The area around campus is crawling with druggies and schizophrenics.

EDIT: Watching the video, it was definitely a homeless guy. Also, fuck all the bystanders just standing there watching him dance around in flames.

Admittedly, I wouldn't be exactly jumping at the chance to get near a guy on fire.

I've played enough vidya to know that guy on fire getting near you = you being on fire. I don't blame anybody who didn't have an extinguisher or an inexplicably long water hose for not getting close to him.

 

[JosephStalin]

Bystander effect on full display, if your even in a situation where you have to help someone like a collapse or the gods forbid something like this you don't shout generally for help you wont get it - you have to point and tell people to do something i.e. "YOU and YOU CALL THE AMBULANCE" "YOU GO AND SEE IF THERE IS ANYONE TRAINED IN FIRST AID IN THAT SHOP" it breaks them out of the shock and re-focusing on doing something.

Yup. We were taught that in AF basic training. "YOU! GO FOR HELP!"

Looking at the video, the guy was taking Burning Man literally. Some of the comments on the Twitter are hilarious.

Ya, burns can be horrible. Visited a guy many years ago, patient at Brooke Army Medical Center burn facility. He wasn't that badly burned, happily.

 

[Jet Fuel Johnny]

I love how he keeps doing the tweaker dance the whole time.

 

[F_Break]

Maybe he was just a big Wax fan.

 

[High Level Rad Waste]

Bystander effect on full display, if your even in a situation where you have to help someone like a collapse or the gods forbid something like this you don't shout generally for help you wont get it - you have to point and tell people to do something i.e. "YOU and YOU CALL THE AMBULANCE" "YOU GO AND SEE IF THERE IS ANYONE TRAINED IN FIRST AID IN THAT SHOP" it breaks them out of the shock and re-focusing on doing something.

Learning about the bystander effect is what tipped me off that most people are just living on autopilot waiting for something to do. It put how the state of the world is into a bleak new perspective. It got worse after learning a good amount of people are just incapable of imagining things or having an inner monologue.

 

[Sparkling Yuzu]

I don't blame anybody who didn't have an extinguisher or an inexplicably long water hose for not getting close to him.

This is why we should legalize super soaker open carry.

 

[TowinKarz]

So much for Berkeley caring about global warming

 

[GigaChad]

What do you niggas want bystanders to do. The guys fully on fire, unless you run around with a fire extinhuisher, theres not much to do.

 

[queue-anon]

There was a self-immolation in the main plaza of the University of Washington a decade ago. The suicide was just some middle-aged guy who had no affiliation with the college. I wondered, at the time, if his final farewell was a "fuck you" to young people with their whole lives ahead of them.

 

[Cyborg Braphog]

What do you niggas want bystanders to do. The guys fully on fire, unless you run around with a fire extinhuisher, theres not much to do.

Theoretically you could wrap your jacket around your hands, approach him from behind and knock him down. After that you could try to get the other people with jackets around to beat him out. That's the only plan I can think of that reduces the risk to me enough to be worth it.

 

[Manul Otocolobus]

...A female bystander who attempted to help him sustained unknown injuries...

Literal definition of a stupid bitch. Unless one knows exactly how to deal with said situation (especially if an accelerant was used), don't fucking play fireman! You're just turning one critical medical situation into two.

 

[get_ur_gamon]

Glad they emphasized the important people here. I'm sure the guy with third-degree burns wants to chat with a social worker.

"So tell me, how do you feel right now?"
"MY FACE IS MELTING, PLEASE IT HURTS SO BAD!"
"Wow, you have a lot a aggression built up inside of you. Tell me, how is your relationship with your father?"

 

[neverendingmidi]

That was more for general use, burn vicims are dicey at the best of times but self immolation even more so - I'm a trained Blacksmith and I am used to dealing with burns (comes with the job) and even compliant burn victims are nasty t deal with when shock kicks in. I saw a guy get a "Molten Salt Bath" spray who should not have been alive with that level of burn try to say he was OK just give him a fag and let him walk it off - parts of his bone structure where showing an where chard. It's only when the shock wore off he started to die, and that's a common thing in Burn victims.

There was a person who took a face full of high pressure steam in the bilge of a ship. Guy got out of the bilge, climbed up 8 stories of steps to get to medical, and died on the helicopter when they tried to fly him back to the city.

His lungs had pretty much been steam cooked and he was guaranteed dead, but still climbed all those steps when he was in shock.

 

[BoobWhiskers]

You joke but I legit can see people do these violent things at random, blame the farms and the media gladly using that as ammo against us even if there is no evidence they actually mean it and arent just doing it just to spread more social chaos (like most shooters do)

I mean since we're in a thread about a dude setting himself on fire, Chloe Sagal was the perfect example of someone an hero'ing with a SPECIFIC STATED (non-Farms) REASON and it still being widely regarded as part of the site's kill count. If someone specifically stating it ISNT the Farms counts as a reason to blame us, why would anyone secondguess even the trolliest of blame games?

Speaking of Sagal, iirc her last words while being rushed to ambulance were 'I didn't think it would hurt so much' or something similar. Fire is a bad way to go.