Unattended cooking thought to be source of fire that damaged Case Road mobile home

Unattended cooking was thought to be the source of a fire that damaged a mobile home on Case Road Southwest Monday morning, an East Olympia Fire District 6 official said Tuesday.

East Olympia fire crews, plus those with Tumwater and West Thurston fire departments, were dispatched about 10:30 a.m. Monday to Tall Firs mobile home park in the 9400 block of Case Road. Once there, they found that half of the mobile home was on fire, East Olympia Fire Chief Warren Peterson said.

The mobile home had one occupant: a man in his 50s who was treated for smoke inhalation at Providence St. Peter Hospital in Olympia, Peterson said.

Fire crews were on the scene for about three hours, he said.

This story was originally published October 23, 2018 at 10:40 AM.