Was his last name "Burns?"

A man undergoing emergency heart surgery in Seattle in 2003 caught fire on the operating table.

He died, but of his heart problem rather than his fire problem.

How does a person catch fire during a heart operation? Inquiring minds want to know!

Presumably it wasn't heartburn.

I wonder whether Gerald Kieschnick of Hearts Ablaze!(c) fame was anywhere in evidence.

If so, does this go on the Ablaze!(c) counter?