Meth caused Olympia house fire that injured 2, sheriff’s department says

Two people were slightly injured and the structure suffered “significant” damage after an early morning Olympia house fire caused by someone making meth, authorities said.

Columbia firefighters responded to a house in the 800 block of Ohio Street around 6:45 a.m., according to department spokesman Brick Lewis.

The fire caused “significant damage,” Lewis said.

Jeffrey McDaniel, 42, had been cooking meth on the house’s second floor all night when a bottle exploded, the sheriff department’s bomb squad and investigators discovered, a spokesman said.

Two adults in the home suffered minor injures, Richland County Sheriff’s Department spokesman Lt. Curtis Wilson said.

McDaniel will be charged with manufacturing meth, manufacturing meth within one-half mile of a school and trafficking, Wilson said.

Additional charges are expected, Wilson said.

This story was originally published December 12, 2015 at 12:05 PM.