A man was rushed to Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in Toronto with burns after being engulfed by fire at the Petro Canada station at Lansdowne Street and Monaghan Road near Lansdowne Place at about 12:28 p.m. Saturday.

The incident is still being investigated, said city police Det. Const. Trevor Hickey, who confirmed initial reports that the man was "fully engulfed" in flames but did not release any additional details.

Bystanders used fire extinguishers to put out the blaze. City fire officials confirmed firefighters did not put out a fire - they were on the scene on standby.

The man's condition was not immediately known on Monday afternoon.

The Office of the Ontario Fire Marshal was not contacted as part of the probe, Hickey said.

The blaze was no accident, according to a social media report from a woman who claimed to have witnessed the incident.

The man used a lighter to ignite a fuel nozzle, before "pointing it all around," including at a woman there, Sammi Mason wrote on Facebook.

"He then caught himself on fire and rolled under the truck, spreading even more flames," she wrote, adding how the man tried to set himself on fire again with the lighter as police officers arrived, after the initial fire was put out.

jason.bain

@peterboroughdaily.com