Pants on fire

A man in the San Francisco suburb of Vallejo was burned when his cellphone caught fire in his pocket. The plastic lawn chair in which he was sleeping when the accident happened melted from the heat of the flames, that's how bad it was.

Tweedy said that from the burn patterns on Picaso's clothes and body, it was clear the fire began in the right front pocket of his polyester-blend slacks.

"There were no matches," Tweedy said. "There were no lighters. He wasn't smoking. The only source was the phone that was in his pocket. I know he didn't spontaneously combust."