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FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- A small explosion sent a man to the hospital with serious burns. Authorities say he was trying to make a type of drug at a home in Central Fresno. Two children and a woman were inside the home at the time. The blast happened around 6 p.m. on Crystal near Griffith.

Fresno firefighters say the man is in the burn center with life-threatening burns. They believe that the man may have been making honey oil hash, which they say is a very dangerous and volatile process.

"Our estimate approximately 80 percent of his body between 2nd and 3rd degree burns," Fresno Fire Batallion Chief Rich Cabral said.

Firefighters said it looks like the fiery accident may have been a result of the man attempting to make honey oil, derived from marijuana.

"Honey oil is used as a smoking product that's very similar to hashish," Cabral said.

Authorities say making honey oil involves extracting a chemical from marijuana with the use of butane gas.

"The very process is highly dangerous and in this case, as others we've seen, explosions happen inside the home where other people have been injured," Cabral said.

Firefighters say a woman and two children were inside the house in different room when the explosion occurred. All were uninjured.

Sabrina Valenzuela lives a few homes down the street-she says she heard a loud noise earlier in the evening while she was watching television inside her house.

"I heard a big bang and the door was shaking like it was an earthquake but we didn't think anything of it-with the train tracks being so close," neighbor Sabrina Valenzuela said.

After hearing what happened just a few doors down from her home Valenzuela said she doesn't know what to think



"It's just too close to home. It doesn't matter where you live, you gotta be careful about your neighbors," Valenzuela said.

Firefighters said they are trying to determine if the people lived in the home or were squatting. Police are trying to contact the owner of the property.

[Another idiot, making it in the house with children next door, looks like he'll die of the burns, get it outside and preferably in a closed loop apparatus away from people.]

[supermanlives]

boom there goes another oil head. people burn down their houses deepfrying turkeys too. stay smart stay safe.

[jump /injack]

https://blogs.seattletimes.com/today/...ment-building/


January 7, 2014 at 2:17 PM
Powerful Mount Baker explosion blamed on hash oil
Posted by Jennifer Sullivan


Police tape surrounds a building that was damaged in a blast this afternoon. Marcus Yam / The Seattle Times

Thee blast that knocked a building six inches off its foundation today in the Mount Baker neighborhood is one of several recent explosions or fires suspected to be caused by the manufacture of a marijuana-based product.

Seattle police and firefighters are on scene of the blast, which occurred inside a vacant apartment at 2802 S. McClellan St. No one was hurt and the building has been evacuated.

Seattle Fire Department spokesman Kyle Moore blamed the blast on hash oil.

The most popular way of making hash oil — a high-potency extract of marijuana — now involves the use of flammable solvents, particularly butane, which can be purchased in hardware stores.

A substance, believed to be butane, was being stored in containers in a freezer in the building. The butane apparently leaked from the freezer into the refrigerator below and into the appliance’s electrical system. When the refrigerator kicked on today an explosion occurred, Moore said.


“The butane gas leaked into the bottom of the refrigerator. When the refrigerator kicked on it was enough to ignite the butane gas and it caused an explosion,” Moore said.

Police found “a substantial marijuana grow” inside the apartment, said police spokeswoman Renee Witt.

Seattle police are searching for the man who was last living in the apartment. The man hasn’t been seen since November and owed back rent, said Witt. The man is wanted for investigation of reckless endangerment and for his role in the marijuana growing operation, Witt said. She added that the making of hash oil is a crime because it is so volatile.

Last week, two Kirkland men trying to make hash oil from marijuana caused an explosion that severely damaged two apartments.

A fire that injured seven people and destroyed 10 apartment units in Bellevue in November is believed have been caused by someone making hash oil. The cause of the blaze is still under investigation.

The force of today’s Mount Baker blast blew out windows, sliding glass doors and cabinets and shifted the building off its foundation, according to the Seattle Fire Department. A flower shop in the front of the building was evacuated after the explosion, according to the fire department.

A structural engineer and a member of Seattle Police Department’s Arson and Bomb Squad will investigate as well. Puget Sound Energy has shut off the gas to the building and Seattle City Light has shut off power to the building.

[northstate]

Its a damn shame that this is all people are going to associate with concentrates at this rate of prolific headlines from all over the place. (Only to increase sadly)

[Crooked8]

Storing butane in the freezer.....................bu t why? WHY!??

[fcjohnny]

Originally Posted by Crooked8

Storing butane in the freezer.....................bu t why? WHY!??

Sounds like dewaxing gone wrong....

[jump /injack]

SEATTLE — An explosion that rocked a vacant apartment building in south Seattle Tuesday was caused by butane tanks in a refrigerator that were being used to strip hash oil from marijuana plants, police and fire officials said.

Arson investigators said the butane tanks in the refrigerator were the cause of the explosion. Police said they found a large number of marijuana plants in the apartment, too.

The explosion occurred inside a one-story apartment building around 1 p.m. in the 2800 block of South McClellan Street. Firefighters were called to the scene of a “loud blast,” but no fire or smoke could be seen from the building. No injuries were reported, but the force of the blast blew out the building’s windows, a sliding glass door and cabinets.

It also knocked the building about 6 inches off of its foundation, police said.

The Seattle Fire Department issued a statement that said, in part, “Investigators from the Seattle Police Department’s Arson Bomb Squad determined the explosion was caused by butane tanks being stored in the freezer. Because it is heavier than air, the butane gas leaked to the bottom of the refrigerator. When the appliance started up, an electrical spark ignited the butane gas causing an explosion.”

The Seattle Police Department said later, “Officers and SFD found marijuana in one of the bedrooms and a substantial marijuana grow farm was located in the basement. Narcotics Detectives responded. The owner of the property was not forthcoming with who had control of the property. ABS will handle the follow-up on the reckless endangerment charge. The investigation continues.”

[Apparently these were not cans of butane but cylinders or tanks.]



Read more: https://q13fox.com/2014/01/07/police-...#ixzz2poZwP062

"It seems like a relatively recent trend of people who have figured out how to turn a benign plant into an explosive."

Burns of a 2nd and 3rd Degree type associated with Butane type explosions below:

https://www.google.com/search?q=2nd+a...w=1345&bih=841

Gray Wolf's safety tips below.

https://skunkpharmresearch.com/butane-safety/

[Thomas Paine]

Storing butane in the freezer.....................bu t why? WHY!??

Part of the winterization process.

More like they were storing processed BHO in 99% Iso and keeping everything below freezing.

And loosing ones children to child protective services could be considered a disaster to most parents.

[Thomas Paine]

Man dies after being hospitalized in butane honey oil blast

Honolulu, Hawaii
By Star-Advertiser staff

POSTED: 05:28 p.m. HST, Jan 03, 2014

Hawaii County police said the man who had been hospitalized after an explosion involving the production of marijuana-derived oil has died.

Rasi Summers, 30, of Kea'au was pronounced dead at 5:20 p.m. Thursday at Straub Medical Center in Honolulu, where he was taken after suffering severe burns.

He had been listed in critical condition with second-degree burns, police said.

The explosion on Dec. 28 on 17th Avenue in the Hawaiian Paradise Park subdivision in Puna knocked out windows, blew out doors of cabinets and melted plumbing fixtures, police said.

Police said at the scene, there was evidence of a laboratory used to manufacture a marijuana byproduct called butane honey oil.

Police said butane honey oil laboratories are becoming more prevalent on Hawaii island, as they are across the country.

A 28-year-old Puna woman was arrested and later released, pending further investigation.

https://www.staradvertiser.com/news/b...oil_blast.html

[jump /injack]

https://www.vocativ.com/01-2014/hash...hilated-homes/


Hash Oil’s Trail of Seared Skin and Annihilated Homes

One man's body was literally smoking as he staggered down a residential street after an explosion in his illicit home lab
The New Year started with a bang—and burned flesh—for two Seattle-area potheads.
Roommates Robby Meiser and Bruce Mark were using butane to turn a stash of marijuana into hash oil when the gas ignited in their Kirkland, Washington, apartment. The subsequent explosion destroyed two homes and left both men hospitalized with scorched upper bodies.
The pair are actually among the lucky ones. In the week since the Jan. 1 blast, mishaps while making the heady goo have left a Hawaii man dead, a dude in Fresno, Calif., with second- and third-degree burns over 80 percent of his body, and an apartment complex in San Diego with $1.2 million in damage.
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SAN DIEGO, CA. One of at least 6 rooms that were heavily damaged by an explosion in the Heritage Inn Express motel in San Diego. In an adjacent room to this one, two persons were critically burned in a makeshift drug lab. (MCT/Don Bartletti)
Hash oil’s potent trail of seared skin and annihilated homes shows no signs of slowing down in 2014, giving the mayhem long associated with meth labs a run for its money. Dozens of dope-smoking enthusiasts are paying a steep price trying to sap a better high from weed. And the carnage underscores an unintended consequence that’s accompanied the loosening of marijuana laws for medical and recreational use.
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“We’ve been very fortunate that nobody has been killed,” said Jeff Satur, a police commander in Longmont, Colorado. The town, about 15 miles north of Boulder, dealt with its first hash oil explosion in 2012 when a man tried to smoke a cigarette while using butane to extract THC from pot. He nearly blew himself to smithereens.


Hash oil explosions will cause severe burns. (Longmont Police Department)
Last month, Longmont police responded to reports of a man whose body was literally smoking as he staggered down a residential street, Satur said. It turned out that the victim, Benjamin Callahan, and a buddy had detonated a nearby garage that they converted into an illicit lab. Callahan was trying to bolt from the smoldering scene when cops found him. After two days in a burn unit, he fled the state to avoid arson and reckless endangerment charges. There’s now a warrant for his arrest.
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Others have been far less fortunate. Two 23-year-olds in Livermore, California, faced murder charges in 2012 after a man inside their apartment blew himself up while cooking hash oil. Evan Aviles and Lexie Hutson, who were also severely burned in the accident, later pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter and to being an accessory, respectively. Aviles is serving a three-year stretch in state prison. Hutson would not return multiple requests for comment.


The walls and ceiling in a kitchen are charred in an explosion caused by a combination of marijuana and butane in a PVC pipe. (Shelly Thorene)
“We took this case extremely seriously,” said Teresa Drenick, a prosecutor for the Alameda County District Attorney’s Office. “Not only did they put their lives in danger, but of those living in adjacent homes.”
In nearly all cases, the explosion victims used butane, a flammable solvent, to extract hash oil from marijuana. Typically, people fill a canister with pot and use butane to strip away the psychotropic plant oils. They then cook off the solvent by boiling the oil in a hot-water bath. Unfortunately, many folks produce the oil indoors where poor ventilation can cause explosions. The problem has become so persistent that the U.S. Fire Administration—a division of FEMA—published a brief memo on hash oil explosions last year.
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Despite the dangers, cooking hash oil continues to surge in popularity. Dozes of DIY and how-to videos dot the Internet. States like Oregon, Washington and Colorado, which allow medical or recreational marijuana use, either permit or do not explicitly prohibit users from converting pot into the sticky substance. Perhaps most importantly, hash oil gets you fucking stoned. Containing 15 to 30 percent THC, a few drops can get you as ripped as a joint.


Various types of hash oil that have been formed into a type of wax and powder for convenience are displayed at Sonoma Patient Group in Santa Rosa, California. (ZumaPress.com/Santa Rosa Press Democrat)
“Basically, it’s a whole lot stronger than normal weed,” said one Oregon man who lost his best friend, his fingers, half his flesh and the use of his right hand in a hash oil explosion. “I’m not scientist, but that’s why I did it.”
The man (who spoke candidly with Vocativ on the condition that his name be withheld) had extracted oil from pot plants several times prior to the blast that rocked his neighborhood outside of Portland, Oregon, last May.
One minute, he was in his garage and clutching a butane torch while the friend assisted him with the cook. The next, a powerful explosion triggered by a furnace pilot light hurled him through the garage door. Covered from head to toe in flames, the man began rolling around in his front yard. Then he realized his friend was still inside the garage.
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“And the whole entire thing was a fireball,” he said. Still, he ran back into the garage and dragged his friend out of the burning rubble. The friend died in a hospital 18 days later.
As for the man, he spent six weeks in a medically induced coma while doctors performed a dozen operations on his charred body. He then spent another six weeks at the Rehabilitation Institute of Oregon.
Today, grafted skin covers his entire body from the waist up, he said. He lost his sweat glands and the use of his right hand. He and his girlfriend lost everything in their home from the explosion. His medical bills are $1.3 million.
The man said he has zero interest in ever making hash oil again.
“I hate to call myself a fucking idiot, but I guess I learned the hard way,” he said.