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This is 24th explosion this month and its only the 16th of the month. All of the explosion have been inside, none of these should have happened nor would they if the basic safety procedures were followed and the extraction was done outside with fans blowing the butane fume away. Don't do this inside where the butane can pool, one person was doing it inside and the butane went down two stories to the basement, blew the house completely off of the foundations. Total loss to the parents home while they were in Europe $750,000 total loss.
Woman faces charges related to hash oil lab explosion
A 20-year-old Corvallis woman faces four felonies in connection with a hash oil laboratory explosion that sent a teen and another man to the hospital with serious burns.
Mariah Marie Smith appeared this week before Ravalli County Justice Robin Clute on felony counts of conspiring to operate a clandestine laboratory and criminal production of dangerous drugs, as well as criminal possession of dangerous drugs and criminal endangerment.
Court records said the incident began May 6 at 6:44 a.m. when Hamilton police received a report that a minor child had been dropped off at the Marcus Daly Memorial Hospital emergency room.
The child was in severe pain with burns to his hands, feet, head, neck, shoulders and chest.
The responding officer learned that the child had been dropped off by a sport utility vehicle with California license plates. Reports said one of the people in the car was also burned.
The officer then spoke to the minor’s father, who said he was awakened by the sound of an explosion inside his home. When he entered his office, he found the room on fire and his son injured.
Smith and her boyfriend, Howard Mathew Wease III, were also there.
The father instructed them to take the minor to the hospital while he fought the fire.
An investigation at the home later found significant damage, homemade pipes, cans of butane and a large amount of marijuana, court records said.
Wease was arrested on a standing warrant and transported to the hospital after he complained about pain and the officer noticed skin falling off his burned lower arms and hands.
The minor was later transported to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle.
Smith later told officers she was sleeping in her car when the explosion occurred. She allegedly said Wease and the minor were making hash oil together, despite her warning the process should never be attempted inside because the butane that’s used can ignite and explode.
A police detective later recovered five pounds of marijuana and 23 cans of butane from the home. Inside Smith’s car, officers allegedly found four glass containers of suspected hash oil, additional marijuana, drug paraphernalia and a firearm.
Wease was arraigned earlier on felony charges relating to the case.
Clute set bail for Smith at $20,000.
"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:
http://www.google.com/search?q=2nd+...7Aqa_2QXS04CoDQ&ved=0CCcQsAQ&biw=1345&bih=841
Gray Wolf's safety tips below.
http://skunkpharmresearch.com/butane-safety/
This is 24th explosion this month and its only the 16th of the month. All of the explosion have been inside, none of these should have happened nor would they if the basic safety procedures were followed and the extraction was done outside with fans blowing the butane fume away. Don't do this inside where the butane can pool, one person was doing it inside and the butane went down two stories to the basement, blew the house completely off of the foundations. Total loss to the parents home while they were in Europe $750,000 total loss.
Woman faces charges related to hash oil lab explosion
A 20-year-old Corvallis woman faces four felonies in connection with a hash oil laboratory explosion that sent a teen and another man to the hospital with serious burns.
Mariah Marie Smith appeared this week before Ravalli County Justice Robin Clute on felony counts of conspiring to operate a clandestine laboratory and criminal production of dangerous drugs, as well as criminal possession of dangerous drugs and criminal endangerment.
Court records said the incident began May 6 at 6:44 a.m. when Hamilton police received a report that a minor child had been dropped off at the Marcus Daly Memorial Hospital emergency room.
The child was in severe pain with burns to his hands, feet, head, neck, shoulders and chest.
The responding officer learned that the child had been dropped off by a sport utility vehicle with California license plates. Reports said one of the people in the car was also burned.
The officer then spoke to the minor’s father, who said he was awakened by the sound of an explosion inside his home. When he entered his office, he found the room on fire and his son injured.
Smith and her boyfriend, Howard Mathew Wease III, were also there.
The father instructed them to take the minor to the hospital while he fought the fire.
An investigation at the home later found significant damage, homemade pipes, cans of butane and a large amount of marijuana, court records said.
Wease was arrested on a standing warrant and transported to the hospital after he complained about pain and the officer noticed skin falling off his burned lower arms and hands.
The minor was later transported to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle.
Smith later told officers she was sleeping in her car when the explosion occurred. She allegedly said Wease and the minor were making hash oil together, despite her warning the process should never be attempted inside because the butane that’s used can ignite and explode.
A police detective later recovered five pounds of marijuana and 23 cans of butane from the home. Inside Smith’s car, officers allegedly found four glass containers of suspected hash oil, additional marijuana, drug paraphernalia and a firearm.
Wease was arraigned earlier on felony charges relating to the case.
Clute set bail for Smith at $20,000.
"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:
http://www.google.com/search?q=2nd+...7Aqa_2QXS04CoDQ&ved=0CCcQsAQ&biw=1345&bih=841
Gray Wolf's safety tips below.
http://skunkpharmresearch.com/butane-safety/
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