Pa. man jailed after drunken cooking led to fire

JOHNSTOWN, Pa. – 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.

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Information from: The Tribune-Democrat, http://www.tribune-democrat.com