THE FIREMAN IS BAKED!!!!! The LAFD have confirmed at least one fatality following a fire at a structure in the Green Meadows neighborhood within South Los Angeles. A total of 113 firefighters were on the scene with a knockdown within 75 minutes. LAFD captain Adam VanGerpen said the building appears to be involved in a cannabis grow operation. (caution its from the UK's Sun newspaper)
Follow-up ‘Clandestine Lab’ Found Chavez added that the operation housed by the building is being investigated as an “illegal butane honey oil clandestine lab.” Many cannabis operators use butane, propane or other hydrocarbons held by containers like those found in the burned-out building to produce cannabis extractions commonly known as butane hash oil, butane honey oil or BHO. The process can be hazardous if not executed carefully, and explosions and fires at such cannabis labs have occurred many times. Although cannabis is legal in California for both recreational and medicinal purposes, the state has a pervasive and thriving unlicensed marijuana production and processing economy. Authorities investigating Saturday’s fire believed the Green Meadows cannabis operation was part of this gray market. “We can’t say for sure because we don’t know exactly what permits they had…but we did not see any placarding from the outside that would indicate that this was a cannabis operation, which they should have had,” said LAFD Captain Adam Van Gerpen, according to a report on local television news. “There are multiple different types of chemicals that they use to do this and some of them could be explosive…and have deadly results.”