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Meth Lab Ka-Boom Foils Police Raid

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Missed It By 3 Hours

BETHLEHEM, PENNSYLVANIA, POLICE and other agencies in a regional drug crimes task force were all set for a 6 am raid on a suspected meth lab house in the city this morning (Friday).  The search warrant had been received and all plans for the surprise raid finalized.  But to everyone's surprise, at 3 am the fire department got an early invitation via 9-1-1 when a destructive ka-boom inside the house altered the evidence and sent several people to the hospital.

The firefighters needed some decontamination of
the chemical residues.  (Express-Times / Wyncoop photo)

The Lehigh Valley Express-Times is reporting:

An injured woman was found at the home, and she was taken to Lehigh Valley Hospital-Muhlenberg, police said.

Police developed information that there were other people in the home at the time of the blast. Two men and two more women eventually arrived at the hospital for treatment. The men had fled the explosion in a van that was later found in the parking lot of the Bethlehem Square Shopping Center in the township. It had to be decontaminated by the Pennsylvania State Police Clandestine Laboratory team.

The men were driven to the hospital in another vehicle, police said.

Two Bethlehem police officers who responded to Greenleaf Street were injured; one had chemical burns and the other had symptoms from inhaling chemicals. Both were treated at a hospital and released, police said.

The State Police clandestine laboratory team processed
the evidence on the front sidewalk.  (Express-Times / Wojcik)

Read the full article in the Express-Times HERE.
Bethlehem Patch has MORE.

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Posted by on March 8, 2013 • Filed under: crime, explosion, Fire Rescue Topics • Tagged: ,

Perps Trigger Ka-Boom as Cops Are Raiding Their Meth Lab

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No Injuries, But They're In Jail Now

KATIKATI, NEW ZEALAND, POLICE have three people in custody following a bizarre raid Saturday on a meth lab set up in an abandoned lawnmower factory.  The officers had a search warrant and were surrounding the building to pen in the criminals when the perps either accidentally or deliberately started setting off a series of heavy explosions.  The fireworks began just as the ring of police officers were approaching the building, causing them to back off quickly.

TVNZ

The ka-booms started a major fire in the facility that is believed to be run by the local criminal group known as the Mongrel Mob.  The fire was described as "intense" and took about four hours to bring under control.  The fire department had already been deployed and was on standby when the raid began.

SunLive

The police nabbed three adults on the scene and took them away.  A 35-year-old man from Katikati, a 37-year-old man from Maketu and a 26-year-old woman from Tauranga are all jointly charged with arson and conspiring to manufacture methamphetamine.

Three suspects are reluctantly led away from the
crime scene.  (NewsTalkZB)

OneNews has a brief video HERE.

TVNZ has the STORY.
The New Zealand Herald has MORE.

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Posted by on December 9, 2012 • Filed under: crime, explosion, Fire Rescue Topics • Tagged: ,

Meth Lab Triggers Trailer Park Ka-Boom

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They're Gonna' Have to Move, Now

FOUR ANDOVER, NEW YORK, PEOPLE are under arrest following an explosion Saturday night that blew out the side of their trailer in Allegany County.  The neighborhood was rattled last night (Saturday) around 9:15 pm when a suspected meth lab let loose and destroyed their abode and burned one of them seriously enough to require hospital treatment. 

Home Sweet Home was left a shambles Sunday morning following a
mixup in the meth recipe.  (Wellsville Daily News)

The Buffalo News is reporting:

A burn victim, identified only as a 26-year-old, is in police custody at Jones Memorial Hospital, Wellsville. The victim suffered first- and second-degree burns and smoke inhalation, troopers said.

That victim, along with Steven M. Weiss, 22; Elizabeth K. Martin, 21; and Angie M. Matison, 34, all of Andover, were charged with felony counts of unlawful manufacture of methamphetamine and criminal possession of precursors of methamphetamine, and a misdemeanor count of criminal possession of methamphetamine manufacturing material.

The Wellsville Daily has MORE.

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Posted by on June 17, 2012 • Filed under: explosion, Fire Rescue Topics • Tagged: ,

Updated: Geezer Meth Lab Blows Up, Burns Nursing Home

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As the Hippie Generation Starts the Slide Into Dementia….

Updated, Monday 11 pm:  Videos and additional photos, information added.

AN EXPLOSION AND FIRE in an Ashtabula, Ohio, nursing home Sunday night has been blamed on a meth lab that was cooking in a room that had several visitors in it.

WOIO-TV

Staff and residents alike were shaken by the explosion that rocked the 2nd floor of the Park Haven Nursing Home and started a fire in one of the rooms.  Two men were injured or burned in the blast and had to be transported to the hospital.  On Monday it was announced that one of the men had died.  Update:  The fatality has been identified as Shawn Warrens, 31.

Ashtabula firefighters advance a hose line into the nursing home.
(Star Beacon photo)

The Ashtabula Star Beacon describes the acitivity:

Ashtabula, Ashtabula Township and Saybrook Township fire departments responded to the call on Park Avenue after two or three men were "engulfed" in flames on the building’s second floor, nurse Deanna Bigley said.

"I was taking a break and I looked through the window and I saw an explosion of fire," she said. "There was this guy and he was engulfed in flames. One of our residents put him out, but then the fire started up and he had to be put out again."

Bigley said the men in room 18 — where the fire started — were visitors.

Ashtabula Fire Dept. photo

All of the nurses and staff went right to work getting all 38 residents evacuated and the getting blankets to keep them warm in the freezing outdoors.  The firefighters were able to knock the fire down quickly and there was no extension in the building.  None of the residents were injured or transported.  Other than the two visitors, the only other transport was  Fire officials say that five people were transported including a pregnant nurse who kept on evacuating the residents with the building filling up with smoke.  She was just sent to the hospital to be checked and was apparently ok.

WOIO-TV filed this video report:

 

(If the video player does not show up on your monitor, CLICK HERE to view it.)

It was reported that the building is sprinklered and that contained the fire.

Following an investigation into the blaze, the fire marshal said that the explosion was caused by a meth lab in the room.

Fox TV Ch. 8 interviews Fire Chief Ron Pristera in this video report and he describes their reaction when the found the remains of a meth lab in the room HERE.

 

The Star Beacon has more details HERE.

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Posted by on March 5, 2012 • Filed under: fire, Fires, Videos • Tagged: , ,

Meth Lab Ka-Boom Takes Out 30 Apartments

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AN ENTIRE BUILDING IN A DES MOINES, IOWA, apartment complex was destroyed Saturday afternoon when a suspected meth lab blew up in one of the units.  The large explosion blew out part of the wall and started a fire that swept through all 30 units in the building, leaving at least 100 people homeless.

Des Moines Register

The Des Moines FD required two hours to bring the fire under control and all the personal possessions of the tenants were destroyed.  The two suspects, ages 28 and 21, were seriously injured and hospitalized with one of them burned over 30 to 50 percent.  Both have been transferred to a burn center in Iowa City.

WHO-TV

After the fire was extinguished about 2/3 of the roof collapsed.  The entire building is a total loss and will have to be demolished.  The multi-building complex has 180 apartments and management believes they have enough vacant units to house the residents that were burned out.

Des Moines Register

KCCI-TV Ch. 8 posted this video report from the scene:

The Des Moines Register has a 30-image photo gallery HERE.
The Register has the STORY.

Posted by on August 30, 2010 • Filed under: explosion, fire, Fires • Tagged: , , ,