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Where I live in fact right in the middle of a nice neighborhood a house exploded sending the refrigerator through the roof and onto a neighboring houses roof.
All thanks to smelly potheads.
Marijuana labs spawn lethal explosions across the country
NEW YORK (AP) — An explosion that destroyed a New York City home and killed a firefighter has drawn attention to marijuana-making methods that are legal in many states — but can also be lethal.
A New York fire battalion chief died responding to the blast Tuesday in a Bronx home that authorities say had been converted into an indoor marijuana farm. They’re investigating whether the alleged growers tampered with gas lines and mishandled other materials in ways that caused the explosion.
Indoor marijuana farmers can create potential fire hazards by using natural gas, propane or butane to power carbon dioxide generators that make the plants grow. In recent years across the country, similar methods used to produce more potent marijuana extracts have resulted in explosions and other catastrophes.
Indoor gas use “is a standard way to grow marijuana,” says Michael O'Hare, a professor at the University of California in Berkeley who is an expert in cannabis cultivation. “If you raise the CO2 level, it’ll grow faster.”
Some growers rely on propane or butane gas because using large amounts of metered gas from a utility could draw the attention of authorities, who might question why so much fuel is needed for a house of a certain size, O'Hare said. In those conditions, a gas leak could spell disaster, he said.
An hour before the explosion at about 7:30 a.m. on Tuesday in the Bronx, dozens of nearby residents said they could smell gas wafting over the neighborhood. The house had already been evacuated and fire personnel were on the scene when the blast sent debris flying, killing Chief Michael Fahy, a 17-year fire department veteran and father of three. His funeral was being held Saturday.
Slideshow: Deadly house explosion in the Bronx >>>
Two suspects, Garivaldi Castillo and Julio Salcedo, were arrested and are being held on drug charges while authorities try to determine whether there is evidence they could result in more serious counts related to Fahy’s death.
Prosecutors said in court this week that the two-story Bronx property was full of combustible items related to the pot operation, including grow lamps and vats of liquid fertilizer. Windows were sealed and other areas covered with extra insulation to retain heat. Plants the size of “small trees” were growing in bedrooms on the upper floor.
A lawyer for the 32-year-old Castillo has questioned his connections to the house. Castillo has pleaded not guilty. Salcedo, 34, was arraigned late Friday, pleaded not guilty and is being held without bail.
Firefighters packed the courthouse where Salcedo was arraigned. Earlier, as he walked into a Bronx precinct, some firefighters told him to “burn in hell,” The New York Daily News reported.
Given that only about half of U.S. states have legalized marijuana, either for medical or recreational use, it’s impossible to estimate how many such growth labs exist, O'Hare said.
Marijuana labs spawn lethal explosions across the country
You're right. The reason is, the law they passed allowed individual counties to opt out and.....surprise(!) several did just that, not wanting a bunch of potheads in their county. But when pot is legal only 20 miles away, a thriving black market of traffickers sprung up. Colorado now has more illegal trafficking of drugs than ever before.Are the potties killing themselves off? Then there's no problem, a little urban renewal is all.
It's the innocent ones that are affected that concerns me.
People who do stupid- and illegal things with propane and butane or natural gas- can kill many more than themselves.
I have nothing against safe legal marijuana growing- but people endangering others should get prosecuted.
Make marijuana cultivation illegal and illegal grows will be priced out by legal grows.
the black market thrives in colorado
Don't you folks know that Urban Farming is Green and Sustainable? It's encouraged by the Greenies, adored by the leftist media,, and PRAISED by every Progressive.
Same thing could have happened in the Bronx trying to grow Organic Arugula on the 12th floor.
Go look up Urban Farming. It's gonna save the planet..
Your in line behind a thousand other brainless potheads like yourself who make the illogical argument that the dangers and evils of alcohol justify adding even more danger by increasing the legality and social acceptance of more mind altering narcotics.Making shit up again? When people are dying in states that have legalized the shit, what excuses will you potheads use?Where I live in fact right in the middle of a nice neighborhood a house exploded sending the refrigerator through the roof and onto a neighboring houses roof.
All thanks to smelly potheads.
Marijuana labs spawn lethal explosions across the country
NEW YORK (AP) — An explosion that destroyed a New York City home and killed a firefighter has drawn attention to marijuana-making methods that are legal in many states — but can also be lethal.
A New York fire battalion chief died responding to the blast Tuesday in a Bronx home that authorities say had been converted into an indoor marijuana farm. They’re investigating whether the alleged growers tampered with gas lines and mishandled other materials in ways that caused the explosion.
Indoor marijuana farmers can create potential fire hazards by using natural gas, propane or butane to power carbon dioxide generators that make the plants grow. In recent years across the country, similar methods used to produce more potent marijuana extracts have resulted in explosions and other catastrophes.
Indoor gas use “is a standard way to grow marijuana,” says Michael O'Hare, a professor at the University of California in Berkeley who is an expert in cannabis cultivation. “If you raise the CO2 level, it’ll grow faster.”
Some growers rely on propane or butane gas because using large amounts of metered gas from a utility could draw the attention of authorities, who might question why so much fuel is needed for a house of a certain size, O'Hare said. In those conditions, a gas leak could spell disaster, he said.
An hour before the explosion at about 7:30 a.m. on Tuesday in the Bronx, dozens of nearby residents said they could smell gas wafting over the neighborhood. The house had already been evacuated and fire personnel were on the scene when the blast sent debris flying, killing Chief Michael Fahy, a 17-year fire department veteran and father of three. His funeral was being held Saturday.
Slideshow: Deadly house explosion in the Bronx >>>
Two suspects, Garivaldi Castillo and Julio Salcedo, were arrested and are being held on drug charges while authorities try to determine whether there is evidence they could result in more serious counts related to Fahy’s death.
Prosecutors said in court this week that the two-story Bronx property was full of combustible items related to the pot operation, including grow lamps and vats of liquid fertilizer. Windows were sealed and other areas covered with extra insulation to retain heat. Plants the size of “small trees” were growing in bedrooms on the upper floor.
A lawyer for the 32-year-old Castillo has questioned his connections to the house. Castillo has pleaded not guilty. Salcedo, 34, was arraigned late Friday, pleaded not guilty and is being held without bail.
Firefighters packed the courthouse where Salcedo was arraigned. Earlier, as he walked into a Bronx precinct, some firefighters told him to “burn in hell,” The New York Daily News reported.
Given that only about half of U.S. states have legalized marijuana, either for medical or recreational use, it’s impossible to estimate how many such growth labs exist, O'Hare said.
Marijuana labs spawn lethal explosions across the country
Reminds me of what I have read about happening during Prohibition.
Illegal alcohol labs killed thousands.
Why are you always an asshole? Not just some of the time- but always? Is it a prostate problem?
Illegal alcohol killed thousands and thousands of Americans during Prohibition. And that is a fact. And yes, there were illegal alcohol factories, not only illegally distilling alcohol, but also trying to remove the poison the government put in alcohol to make it undrinkable.
Prohibition kills.
Now are people dying in the states that have legal growing? I don't know- it would be rather stupid to go to the expense and danger to grow something dangerously when you can grow it legally. But maybe you prefer dangerous and more expensive to less dangerous and less expensive.
You laugh because I'm different. I laugh because you're all the same.
So why were they fiddling with gas lines then?Don't you folks know that Urban Farming is Green and Sustainable? It's encouraged by the Greenies, adored by the leftist media,, and PRAISED by every Progressive.
Same thing could have happened in the Bronx trying to grow Organic Arugula on the 12th floor.
Go look up Urban Farming. It's gonna save the planet..
The explosions have nothing to do with growing a plant. Would you ban the growing of corn because corn being used to make moonshine can blow up?
Don't you folks know that Urban Farming is Green and Sustainable? It's encouraged by the Greenies, adored by the leftist media,, and PRAISED by every Progressive.
Same thing could have happened in the Bronx trying to grow Organic Arugula on the 12th floor.
Go look up Urban Farming. It's gonna save the planet..
The explosions have nothing to do with growing a plant. Would you ban the growing of corn because corn being used to make moonshine can blow up?
Some of them want to use youYour in line behind a thousand other brainless potheads like yourself who make the illogical argument that the dangers and evils of alcohol justify adding even more danger by increasing the legality and social acceptance of more mind altering narcotics.Making shit up again? When people are dying in states that have legalized the shit, what excuses will you potheads use?Where I live in fact right in the middle of a nice neighborhood a house exploded sending the refrigerator through the roof and onto a neighboring houses roof.
All thanks to smelly potheads.
Marijuana labs spawn lethal explosions across the country
Marijuana labs spawn lethal explosions across the country
Reminds me of what I have read about happening during Prohibition.
Illegal alcohol labs killed thousands.
Why are you always an asshole? Not just some of the time- but always? Is it a prostate problem?
Illegal alcohol killed thousands and thousands of Americans during Prohibition. And that is a fact. And yes, there were illegal alcohol factories, not only illegally distilling alcohol, but also trying to remove the poison the government put in alcohol to make it undrinkable.
Prohibition kills.
Now are people dying in the states that have legal growing? I don't know- it would be rather stupid to go to the expense and danger to grow something dangerously when you can grow it legally. But maybe you prefer dangerous and more expensive to less dangerous and less expensive.
You laugh because I'm different. I laugh because you're all the same.
:0) Doesn't take a degree in psychology to see right through you brother. Now you think you're "special." This isn't about marijuana .. it's all about you. You being special and different.
Sure
So why were they fiddling with gas lines then?Don't you folks know that Urban Farming is Green and Sustainable? It's encouraged by the Greenies, adored by the leftist media,, and PRAISED by every Progressive.
Same thing could have happened in the Bronx trying to grow Organic Arugula on the 12th floor.
Go look up Urban Farming. It's gonna save the planet..
The explosions have nothing to do with growing a plant. Would you ban the growing of corn because corn being used to make moonshine can blow up?
The point is, the explosion was predicated on criminal activity. And every pothead who buys their product colludes with all the awful things that drugs pollute society with.So why were they fiddling with gas lines then?Don't you folks know that Urban Farming is Green and Sustainable? It's encouraged by the Greenies, adored by the leftist media,, and PRAISED by every Progressive.
Same thing could have happened in the Bronx trying to grow Organic Arugula on the 12th floor.
Go look up Urban Farming. It's gonna save the planet..
The explosions have nothing to do with growing a plant. Would you ban the growing of corn because corn being used to make moonshine can blow up?
I'm pretty sure they were processing the pot into a completely different product. You want to outlaw that, or regulate that additional process, then go for it. The growing plant doesn't blow up.
Don't you folks know that Urban Farming is Green and Sustainable? It's encouraged by the Greenies, adored by the leftist media,, and PRAISED by every Progressive.
Same thing could have happened in the Bronx trying to grow Organic Arugula on the 12th floor.
Go look up Urban Farming. It's gonna save the planet..
The explosions have nothing to do with growing a plant. Would you ban the growing of corn because corn being used to make moonshine can blow up?
Sure it does. Says in the article. Nat gas used to produced CO2 to stimulate growth. Every good Greenhouse has a way of doing that. You GROW marijuana. It's a plant. Get it? The fact that fertilizers were found should surprise anybody??
That's how potheads are, dumb as dogshit.I have never heard of a marijuana lab before. What is that?
It's not a pot lab. Some people use propane to extract THC and other chemicals from pot in the form of wax. Idiots using propane without proper procedures and safety measures blow shit up almost every time.
They should have checked with Hank Hill first.
There is more damage done by idiots frying turkeys
Top 5 states with most deep-fried turkey accidents
That's terrible! Don't say that!No one gives a fuck if those idiots blow themselves up. Good riddance.I have never heard of a marijuana lab before. What is that?
It's not a pot lab. Some people use propane to extract THC and other chemicals from pot in the form of wax. Idiots using propane without proper procedures and safety measures blow shit up almost every time.
They should have checked with Hank Hill first.
That's terrible! Don't say that!No one gives a fuck if those idiots blow themselves up. Good riddance.I have never heard of a marijuana lab before. What is that?
It's not a pot lab. Some people use propane to extract THC and other chemicals from pot in the form of wax. Idiots using propane without proper procedures and safety measures blow shit up almost every time.
They should have checked with Hank Hill first.
I have heard of those before, Jon, but I never heard of one blowing up. That was what caught my attention. Apparently they are turning it into something else. The world has gone mad.I have never heard of a marijuana lab before. What is that?
What is that?
a green house
--LOL
It's not a political matter, Bulldog. It's a heart matter.That's terrible! Don't say that!No one gives a fuck if those idiots blow themselves up. Good riddance.I have never heard of a marijuana lab before. What is that?
It's not a pot lab. Some people use propane to extract THC and other chemicals from pot in the form of wax. Idiots using propane without proper procedures and safety measures blow shit up almost every time.
They should have checked with Hank Hill first.
That's what right wingers have become.
So why were they fiddling with gas lines then?Don't you folks know that Urban Farming is Green and Sustainable? It's encouraged by the Greenies, adored by the leftist media,, and PRAISED by every Progressive.
Same thing could have happened in the Bronx trying to grow Organic Arugula on the 12th floor.
Go look up Urban Farming. It's gonna save the planet..
The explosions have nothing to do with growing a plant. Would you ban the growing of corn because corn being used to make moonshine can blow up?
I'm pretty sure they were processing the pot into a completely different product. You want to outlaw that, or regulate that additional process, then go for it. The growing plant doesn't blow up.
God wants people to be free from bondage to drugs. Satan wants people mentally incapacitated so he can exert influence. It's no surprise that as this nation turns its hearts away from God, they turn to chemical addiction instead.It's not a political matter, Bulldog. It's a heart matter.That's terrible! Don't say that!No one gives a fuck if those idiots blow themselves up. Good riddance.I have never heard of a marijuana lab before. What is that?
It's not a pot lab. Some people use propane to extract THC and other chemicals from pot in the form of wax. Idiots using propane without proper procedures and safety measures blow shit up almost every time.
They should have checked with Hank Hill first.
That's what right wingers have become.
