A Cohasset couple say poison came from a meth-lab fire

[fed-up]

"suitcase" meth lab bust was May 2007
I called BINTF to ask if a "Notification of Possible Hazardous Material" notice was sent to Public Health and or property owner in May after the bust

their reply-"that's confidential"

the story and the reporter are not clear if the mobile homes were red-tagged for meth contmaination, story reads like they were only red-tagged for plumbing issues-the reporter will be checking it out after my prompting

I also asked her to check if the 3 mobile homes that were on the property and that were bulldozed and then torched by the property owner were ever tested for meth contamination after the bust

if they were tested, why in the hell were they left on the property??

if not, why not as I believe that is covered under the new California law AB 1078

http://www.newsreview.com/chico/Content?oid=651315

Next-door nastiness
A Cohasset couple say poison came from a meth-lab fire

By Meredith J. Cooper
[e-mail]
More stories by this author...

NOT QUITE PARADISE
G** S***’s Cohasset property is littered with debris, including an old bus.
PHOTO BY MEREDITH J. COOPER
Toxic stew:
The chemicals commonly found at meth-lab sites include acetone, methonol, ammonia, benzene, ether, iodine crystals, hydrochloric acid, freon, lithium, phosophine gas, pseudoephedrine, red phosphorus, sodium hydroxide, sulfuric acid and toluene.



R*** R*** was bundled up in her Cohasset home, sick with the flu, when she smelled smoke coming from her neighbor’s yard. He had kept her and her husband, S***, up the previous few nights with a bulldozer. Now it appeared the building he’d demolished had caught on fire.
..

That was Feb. 15. The smoke lingered for a good 10 days, because the fire hadn’t been put out entirely. And by the 27th, R*** was having a hard time sleeping. By March 9, after not having slept in 11 days and feeling extremely out of sorts, she started seeing doctors.
“They were acting like she was a speedster,” S*** said.

..
Last May, a raid by the Butte Interagency Narcotics Task Force ended in four arrests on Red Bank Road—none of them of S*****—and the seizure of 100 marijuana plants. BINTF also found a methamphetamine lab.
“We call it a suitcase lab. It was shut down, closed up,” said Doug Patterson, a Butte County sheriff’s deputy who participated in the raid.

..

“If your house is red tagged, you can either bring it up to code or demolish it,” Patterson said. Code enforcement had red tagged S****’s residence after the drug bust, for things like broken sewer lines and other structural issues, he added.

Meth lab sites must be inspected by a hazmat crew before being demolished. District Attorney Mike Ramsey said he believes the trailer on S*****’s property that had contained a lab was burned before a hazmat crew saw it.

“Since then he’s been demolishing trailers, mobile homes, and his residence using heavy equipment,” Patterson said. “The neighbors are stating that at night he’s been digging big old holes and burying a lot of these items—hazardous-waste-type items, building stuff. Also he’s been burning it, literally demolishing a mobile home and then setting it on fire for God only knows what reason.”

...

edited to delete names