Soul singer Alexander O’Neal had just returned home from a nearly two-week stay in the ICU when his Minnesota apartment caught fire, according to his wife.
O’Neal and his wife and manager, Cynthia O’Neal, were hospitalized on Friday morning, Dec. 5, after a blaze broke out at their Burnsville, Minn., apartment, TMZ.com and local NBC affiliate KARE 11 reported. The fire began in a third-floor unit around 1:30 a.m., according to fire officials.
Cynthia was released quickly, she told TMZ, while her husband — photographed by KARE 11 being loaded into an ambulance — remained hospitalized for lung testing…