Alcohol, gasoline and lighters don’t mix well. Orange police had a 9-1-1 call Friday night at 9:39 concerning a man throwing gasoline on another man and setting a fire. However, no one was seriously hurt. Detective Captain Cliff Hargrave said the people involved were drinking and no one wanted to file charges. Officer M.T. Roush reported that he went to the 200 block of Farragut Street. A man told him that someone he knew took his cell phone. He found the man at First and Curtis streets and got his phone back and went home. The second man went to the house and threatened to set the resident on fire. He had a plastic drink bottle with gasoline and threw gas toward his target and pulled out a lighter. The intended victim ran away. However, the man with the gasoline and the lighter accidentally caught fire and rode away on a bike. Captain Hargrave said officers found the man and he had burns on his ankle. He refused medical treatment and the target of the thrown gasoline didn’t want to file charges.
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