It blew the garage door off,” Flowers said. And people are doing this in their homes. This is not about marijuana being legal or illegal. “It’s extremely dangerous, and that’s what is so important. The men, all hospitalized in the burn unit at UCSD Medical Center, are now suspects an illegal drug manufacturing case, Flowers said. Three men, all in their 20s escaped but suffered third-degree burns covering 95 percent, 50 percent and 25 percent of their bodies, respectively, a SDFD battalion chief said. The flames even spread to the home next door, but fire crews were able to prevent serious damage. A Toyota 4Runner parked in the driveway was also destroyed. “This was straight up close circuit extraction laboratory using butane. “It was not a marijuana grow,” said DEA Special Agent Karen Flowers. Agents said it was a drug processing operation, not a grow house. The DEA is now in charge of the fire investigation. Fire officials initially thought the house was being used to grow marijuana The force of the blasts blew the door off of the garage.įire broke out in the garage of the house on Sunny Meadow Street near Canyon Breeze Road around 6:15 p.m.
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SAN DIEGO - Federal agents say a series of explosions in a marijuana extraction lab were the likely cause of a weekend fire that seriously burned three young men in Mira Mesa.Īgents with the Drug Enforcement Administration told FOX 5 that dozens of butane cartridges used in the extraction of THC from marijuana somehow caught fire and exploded. Neighbors in Mira Mesa said it sounded like a bomb went off.
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