Macon man accused of setting a fire in his house

A 31-year-old Macon man is being held without bond after he is accused of setting a fire in his house Tuesday.

Reginald Bernard Hill was arrested shortly after Macon-Bibb County firefighters put out a burning mattress in his bedroom in apartment B of a duplex at 2257 Lincoln St.

There was no apparent accidental source of the fire, Macon-Bibb fire investigator Sgt. Ben Gleaton said.

According to the arrest warrant, Hill said the fire started "because I was in the room."

Firefighters had been called to Hill's Lincoln Street apartment before and had also responded to fires at his prior residence.

Gleaton knows of a handful of fires linked to him in the past 10 years.

This story was originally published October 15, 2015 at 5:49 PM with the headline "Macon man accused of setting a fire in his house ."