TIFTON — A mobile home allegedly being used as a methamphetamine lab exploded in Ty Ty early Wednesday morning injuring one unidentified man who was life-flighted to an Augusta burn center.
When Tifton-Tift County firefighters arrived just before 3 a.m., they found the structure at 145 Pines Drive fully engulfed in flames. After most of the fire was extinguished, firefighters entered the mobile home through the rear door and extinguished fire in the bathroom and bedroom of the structure, discovering what appeared to be evidence of a meth lab. Firefighters secured the scene and remained there until after 6 a.m.
According to David Haire, spokesman for the Tift County Sheriff’s Office, the incident is also being investigated by the South Georgia Drug Task Force, which is comprised of officers from the Tift and Crisp county sheriff’s offices. The task force’s lead investigator in the case, who is housed at the Crisp County Sheriff’s Dept., did not return a late Wednesday afternoon telephone call.
Wayne Whitaker, spokesman for State Fire and Safety Commissioner John Oxendine, said Wednesday afternoon that investigators with that office are continuing their probe into the incident.
“It has been confirmed that it was a meth lab,” Whitaker said.
Whitaker said a man who was in the mobile home at the time of the explosion was flown to Joseph M. Still Burn Center in Augusta. He was not aware of whether or not any other people were in the mobile home at the time of the explosion or if anyone else was injured as a result of the explosion.
A Tift County Sheriff’s deputy was on the scene late Wednesday afternoon. At 3:30 p.m., a unit with SWS Emergency Spill Response, an environmental services firm, arrived at the scene for clean up.
To contact senior reporter Angie Thompson, call 382-4321.
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