Woman on train sets her hair on fire, then tries to put it out, California video shows

A woman set her own hair on fire on a subway train on Tuesday in California, social media video shows.

In a video posted by Edgar Garcia Villanueva on TikTok on Wednesday, a woman can be seen crying as her hair is engulfed in flames. A man yells “Your hair’s on fire!” before she extinguishes it by diving underneath her seat. Another passenger is shown in the video trying to help her.

“She appears to have set her own hair on fire, and BART police says there does not appear to be any sort of assault committed by others,” Jim Allison, a BART spokesman, told The San Francisco Chronicle.

BART spokesman Chris Filippi told Bay Area News Group that the incident was reported by an El Cerrito del Norte station agent on Tuesday.

BART officials don’t know the woman’s name, where exactly the incident happened, or how bad her injuries are, according to The San Francisco Chronicle.

McClatchy News has reached out to BART police for comment.

Last week, a man set himself on fire near the Fruitvale BART station, officials told Bay Area News Group. He doused himself with gasoline in a soda bottle, according to Oakland Fire Department spokesman Michael Hunt.

This story was originally published July 16, 2020 at 7:46 AM.