CENTRALIA, Wash. -- Fire officials in Centralia say a resident sparked a small fire in an apartment while trying to kill cockroaches with a homemade flamethrower.



Fire crews were called to the apartment Monday morning after receiving a report of a commercial structure fire.



By the time firefighters arrived, the resident had extinguished the flames. No one was injured, firefighters said.



A preliminary investigation found that the resident was using bug spray and a lighter to create a flamethrower for killing cockroaches. That sparked the fire.









It's not clear whether any cockroaches were actually killed in the process.