A 53-year-old man suffered burn injuries while trying to extinguish a fire in an electrical switch board at his home in Maharashtra`s Thane district, a civic official said on Thursday.

The fire broke out around 11 pm on Wednesday in the switch board of the apartment located on the fourth floor of a building in Kalwa area, Thane Municipal Corporation`s regional disaster management cell (RDMC) chief Avinash Sawant said.