PITTSBURGH – A North Huntingdon man has settled claims with a Monroeville woman for third-degree burns he allegedly suffered on various parts of his body, during a grease fire at her home last year.
Richard Thrift first filed a complaint Feb. 19 in the Allegheny County Court of Common Pleas, against Cynthia Thrift. (The complaint did not make clear if or how Richard is related to Cynthia.)
According to the complaint, Cynthia was frying chicken for Sunday dinner Sept. 29 when she left the stove to check on laundry. Smoking grease in a frying pan activated the smoke alarm, Richard said, and when throwing what she believed to be baking soda didn’t kill the fire, she grabbed the frying pan and attempted to run outside.