An 18-year-old Connecticut man who doused himself with gasoline and setting fire to himself has died, according to a Department of Public Safety statement.

Two motorists found Alex Whitney of Farmington, Conn., Tuesday night sitting in the middle of Duck Pond Road in Ellsworth.

Whitney, a student at the University of Maine in Orono, was being treated at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston where he was flown by helicopter overnight. He received treatment for burns on more than 60 percent of his body.

An ambulance first transported Whitney to Eastern Maine Medical Center in Bangor, the statement said.

The fire burned more than two acres of woods.