Cooking while drunk leads to fire, man's arrest

[Teh One Who Knocks]

Associated Press


JOHNSTOWN, Pa. - A Pennsylvania man is jailed on charges of reckless endangerment and resisting arrest after police say he passed out drunk while cooking, causing a small fire that forced the evacuation of his public housing apartment building.

Online court records show the Cambria County Public Defender is representing 25-year-old Avery McCall, who was arrested about 3 a.m. Tuesday at his apartment in the Solomon Homes public housing complex in Johnstown. That's about 60 miles east of Pittsburgh.

The Tribune-Democrat of Johnstown is reporting that firefighters had to use a pass key to enter the smoky apartment, where they found McCall on the couch as food burned on his stove.

The public defender is declining to comment until McCall's preliminary hearing on Aug. 3.

Nobody else was hurt in the fire.

[AntZ]

Avery McCall Jailed After Drunken Cooking Led To Fire

Simon McCormack

7/27/11 11:26 AM ET



JOHNSTOWN, Pa. (Associated Press) -- A western Pennsylvania man is jailed on charges of reckless endangerment and resisting arrest after police say he passed out drunk while cooking, causing a small fire that forced the evacuation of his public housing apartment building.

Online court records show the Cambria County Public Defender is representing 25-year-old Avery McCall, who was arrested about 3 a.m. Tuesday at his apartment in the Solomon Homes public housing complex in Johnstown. That's about 60 miles east of Pittsburgh.

The Tribune-Democrat of Johnstown is reporting that firefighters had to use a pass key to enter the smoky apartment, where they found McCall on the couch as food burned on his stove.

McCall's attorney did not immediately return a call for comment Wednesday.

Nobody else was hurt in the fire.

[deebakes]

Seems right to me.