BURNSVILLE, Minn. -- R&B singer Alexander O’Neal and his wife Cynthia were hospitalized after a fire destroyed their Burnsville apartment early Dec. 5, just hours after the musician was released from a nearly two-week hospital stay.

Cynthia O’Neal told TMZ she woke around 1 a.m. to find fire on the cord of her husband’s oxygen machine. Alexander O’Neal burned his foot while attempting to stomp out flames on the floor before the mattress ignited, according to the report.

The couple escaped their third-floor apartment and called 911, Parade added. Paramedics transported both to a nearby hospital, where Cynthia O’Neal was examined and released. The singer underwent additional lung testing before being discharged later that day.

Alexander O’Neal had spent almost two weeks in intensive c

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