Wilson School professor and Associate Dean David Bradford remains in critical condition after being taken to Temple University Hospital early Tuesday morning.
Bradford suffered third degree burns "to a large portion of his body" in a fire in his home on Pine Street, near Rialto's Barbershop, according to a statement from the Princeton Borough Police Department.
Bradford's wife called 911 Tuesday around 1:00 a.m. to report a house fire, Borough Police Lt. Dennis McManimon said. Borough police arrived at the scene shortly thereafter and found Bradford lying on the floor with severe burns, the statement said.
The fire was caused by candles that had been lit and placed on a Christmas tree, which caught on fire. Bradford was burned "attempting to carry the burning tree out of the house," according to the report.
Officers gave Bradford oxygen while awaiting the Princeton First Aid and Rescue Squad's (PFARS) arrival.
PFARS transported Bradford to Capital Health Systems (CHS) at Fuld after assessing that "the facilities available at CHS were better suited to treating the patient" than those available at the University Medical Center at Princeton (UMCP), according to PFARS chief Greg Paulson.
Bradford was later taken to the Temple University Hospital Burn Center in Philadelphia. As of Tuesday afternoon, he remained in critical condition at the Burn Center, according to a hospital representative.
"All of David's colleagues and friends here at the School were shocked and saddened to learn of this tragic event, and our thoughts are with him and his family, hoping for his successful recovery," Wilson School Dean Anne-Marie Slaughter said.
Bradford served as a member of the Council of Economic Advisers to the Bush administration from 1991 to 1993. He also served at the Department of the Treasury, where he directed a study that is regarded as the basis of the U.S. income tax reforms enacted in 1986.
He is currently a researcher at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He is also Adjunct Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research in Washington, D.C., as well as Adjunct Professor of Law at the New York University School of Law.
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