Bho Disasters (PLEASE READ!)

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Saw CBS news story this morning talking about possibly controlling butane can sales like they regulate Sudafed to stop meth labs. They did show video of closed loop commercial extraction and interviewed extractor, he agreed with regulating butane cans.

Lawyer for a guy charged with manufacturing made some good points that client was working with materials that are 100% legal and broke no laws and that the incident in question was result of a accident and not a crime, similar to frying a turkey and starting a fire.

 

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http://www.chicoer.com/general-news/20150104/explosion-injures-two-investigators-suspect-honey-oil



Firefighters respond to a fire on West 2nd Ave. caused by a possible honey oil explosion in Chico, California Jan. 4, 2014. (Emily Bertolino -- Enterprise-Record)

By Dan Reidel, Chico Enterprise-Record

Posted: 01/04/15, 6:44 PM PST | Updated: 3 weeks ago
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A man is wheeled to an ambulance to be taken to Enloe Medical Center after his apartment caught Chico, California Jan. 4, 2014. (Emily Bertolino -- Enterprise-Record)

Chico >> Two people were injured in an explosion and fire around 4:45 p.m. Sunday on the 600 block of West Second Avenue.

The entire 10-unit apartment building was threatened by the explosion, said Chico Fire Department Division Chief Aaron Lowe. The windows were all blown out and the building sustained minor structure damage.

Investigators suspect the fire is drug related.

“It’s probably honey oil, but we can’t be sure at this time,” Lowe said.

Honey oil is a viscous concentrated form of cannabis usually made using liquid butane, which is highly explosive.

The two people who were inside the apartment when the blast occurred appeared to be conscious when they were transported to Enloe Medical Center, although Lowe did not know the extent of their injuries.

Chico police and fire are involved in the investigation. Police officers knocked on neighbors’ doors and interviewed witnesses immediately after the fire had been extinguished.

A third person was thought to have been in the apartment when firefighters arrived, but Lowe said they only found two people inside. No one else was injured.

West Second Avenue was closed for several hours after the explosion.

 

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http://www.kolotv.com/news/northern...re-Fire-on-C-Street-in-Sparks--289740351.html


Marijuana Grow May Have Led to Sparks Fire


SPARKS, NV - Sparks investigators are looking into a fire that may be related to a marijuana grow.
Firefighters were called January 25th, 2015, at 5:38PM pm to 40 C Street on a report of a structure fire. Firefighters found the fire had been caused by an explosion, with a man and woman home at the time. Both made it out of the house by the time firefighters got there; the man was taken to Renown Regional Medical Center for upper body burns, while the woman wasn't hurt. Two dogs are also not hurt.
The man told police he had a legal marijuana grow in the home, and that the explosion was from butane while he was trying to manufacture hash oil from the marijuana. Police say they have not confirmed any of that information.

 

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http://www.koaa.com/story/27758344/...-to-make-hash-oil-production-illegal-in-homes

Attorney General Hopes to Make Hash Oil Production Illegal in Homes
By Maddie Garrett


The Colorado Attorney General is clearing the air on the controversial practice of making hash oil at home. The process, which uses marijuana and often butane gas, can be extremely dangerous and Attorney General John Suthers wants to make it illegal.

"I think in the last year we've had 26 hash oil explosions," said Suthers.

Many of those explosions resulted in severe 2nd and 3rd degree burns. Some happened here in Southern Colorado.

"One wrong decision almost cost me my entire life," Wayne Winkler told News 5 in an interview in May 2014.

Winkler was severely burned when he was trying to make hash oil at his home. The butane ignited and caused an explosion.

"I was literally burned alive in a split second, not just burned alive, but my hands, the skin, just seemed like it melted off, it was so severe, I just thought God, what did I do, what did I do?" said Winkler.

It's this kind of accident Suthers is hoping to prevent.

"We want people to stop trying to do this butane extraction of hash oil in their homes. It's a very dangerous activity," explained Suthers.

But many people feel the process is not illegal, because Amendment 64 states adults can process marijuana in their homes. Suthers argues that this kind of process to make hash oil goes beyond that and is not allowed under Amendment 64.

"We do not see in Amendment 64 any suggestion that people can engage in this highly dangerous activity, have that Constitutional right," he said.

Suthers said that making hash oil at home using explosive gas is criminal reckless endangerment and should be prosecuted as such. He said just because the materials used, marijuana and butane gas, are legal doesn't make the process legal.

"The individual things that comprise a bomb may be legal, but you can't make a bomb in your home either," he said.

Recently several cases involving hash oil explosions are coming up in court, and defendants are arguing that making hash oil by any means necessary is their right under Amendment 64.

"Some of the district attorneys have been a little reluctant to charge it being unclear," said Suthers.

Suthers has filed his opinion in briefs in several of these cases, hoping to bolster district attorneys and encourage them to prosecute as reckless endangerment.

"We hope that the Attorney General's intervention will cause district attorneys to have more confidence that they do have the right to go after this highly dangerous activity," said Suthers.

He also hopes to encourage more lawmakers and local municipalities to make laws banning the process.

All of this only applies to making hash oil in a residential area using explosive materials like butane gas.

Professionals can still make the oil, and adults 21 and older can use hash oil.

 

[AAinAA]

Ice hash .

 

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http://www.orovillemr.com/general-n...leads-the-state-in-marijuana-refining-process


Butte County leads the state in marijuana refining process

A Butte County sheriff?s representative explains the rise in incidents involving butane honey oil in Butte County during an interview on Wednesday. (Bill Husa/Staff Photo)

By ALMENDRA CARPIZO-Staff Writer
Posted: 01/24/14, 12:01 AM PST |
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In the early morning of Jan. 15, law enforcement responded to an explosion at a residence on Cold Creek Lane in Oroville. It was the fourth explosion caused by butane honey oil in recent weeks in Butte County, according to authorities.
Butane honey oil labs are becoming a frequent and undesirable discovery for the members of the Butte County Sheriff's Office's Special Enforcement Unit.
The practice of refining marijuana into a honey-like consistency has been going on for more than 20 years, but it has recently become popular, SEU detective Doug Patterson said.
"This has just exploded," he said.
The substance's recent rise in popularity can be attributed to several things; among them is the increase in personal use, Patterson said. Butane honey oil is 60 percent to 80 percent pure tetrahydricannabinol (THC), the active chemical in marijuana. The most potent marijuana plants are in the high 20 to low 30 percents, he added.
A single dose of honey oil — or earwax as it's also called — is a tenth of a gram, about the size of a cotton swab, and the high can last for hours.
A gram of honey oil, which is about the size of a sugar packet, goes for about $50 around this area, Patterson said.
Possessing a small amount of honey oil is not illegal for people with Proposition 215 recommendations. However, the manufacturing of the substance carries the same penalties as making methamphetamine.
For the past few years, Butte County has been leading the state in the seizure of butane honey oil labs.
There have been 14 labs seized since July 2013, Patterson said.
Patterson credits the county's standing in part to the lack of knowledge of the process by other law enforcement agencies.
Members on the SEU are trained to look for items such as glass dishes, extraction tubes and other indicia when they serve a search warrant.
So many law enforcement agencies that go inside a home don't know about honey oil, he said. SEU has been teaching surrounding agencies about the labs and the process. People in the community may also lack awareness.
SEU found one of the largest labs in the county's history in Magalia on Jan. 7 after the owner of the property allegedly told authorities he thought people were making crack cocaine.
Detectives obtained a search warrant for the residence, which was unoccupied, and reportedly found 25 glass collection dishes, 52 extraction tubes, 1,152 empty 300 ml butane cans, 672 full butane cans, two wooden extraction workstations capable of extracting honey oil from six tubes at the same time, 4.53 pounds of finished butane honey oil and 185.73 pounds of marijuana, according to SEU.
The case is still ongoing and there have been no arrests, but there's a possible suspect, Patterson said.
The reason why the production of butane honey oil carries such a hefty penalty is because of how dangerous it is to make it.
Unlike a meth lab, there are no dangerous chemicals involved, but it's explosive in nature and the flammability is the danger, Patterson explained.
During the Jan. 15 explosion, a small piece of flesh was found, but no one was inside the residence.
There's also the danger of innocent people who may live next door to someone making the substance.
"It (lab) can be in the city of Chico or all the way up to your foothills; we find it everywhere," Patterson said.
In the summer of 2013, the Chico Fire Department responded to a fire at a travel trailer in north Chico that was caused because of the manufacturing of butane honey oil, Chico Fire Inspector Rick Doane said. There were no injuries, but it caused extensive damage.
There was also a home that was destroyed on Warner Street in 2012 after three people attempted to make the substance.
The reason for its volatile nature comes from the butane used to extract the THC, Patterson said.
People take marijuana "shake" — trimmings and leaves — put it inside an extraction tube, and insert the butane can's tip into the tube and release all the liquid butane, which is used to fill lighters. The butane will extract the THC and release the honey-like substance into glass dishes.
The flashpoint — the minimum temperature it takes to ignite butane — is 76 degrees, Patterson said. Almost anything will ignite it.
When the honey oil is on a dish, it's violently boiling, but there's no heat source at all, he said. The boiling point, 31.3 degrees, is what they're waiting for, but it's the most dangerous part because all the fumes being emitted might find an ignition source.
"Literally as simple as flipping on a light switch — that little spark will ignite the fumes that accumulated in the room," he said.
It's the same thing as taking a propane tank and letting the gas fill up a house, Doane said. Butane doesn't need to be near a flame to ignite. If the vapors are just right, even a static spark from clothing can ignite it.
Because butane is lighter than air, it starts building up on the ceiling, Patterson said. People have said they ventilated to avoid an explosion, but there's a rush and a flash fire throughout their entire house.
Numerous people have been sent to the UC Davis burn center in Sacramento as a result of a butane fire or explosion, but an immediate number was not available.
Labs pose a danger to the community, firefighters, responders and law enforcement members, the officials said.
"It looks like it's safe, but it's not safe," Doane said. "Something that seems easy to do can really alter some lives. It's not an innocent act. It's extremely dangerous."
People who cause a fire because of the manufacturing of honey oil can face felony charges of recklessly causing a fire, he said.
Manufacturing for personal use carries the same charge as if someone is found making commercial quantities, Patterson said.

The year ended up with about 22 incidences of explosions and fires counting the last week of November and all of December. Most of those fires and detonations of butane were preventable by just a modicum of care, all were in someones place of residence, usually in the kitchen area. For a country of over 330 million people that would work out to be less than 300 per year nationwide, not bad when you consider that Chicago had 412 murders in the same length [one year] of time. Of course it would be better if there were no injuries concerning butane extractions just when more knowledge is coming out about the positive medical benefits; just trying to put things in perspective. The #1 cause of fire and explosion is in home extraction and ignorance.

Re-reading the story there are several inaccuracies concerning butane, anyone catch them?

 

[SkyHighLer]

^jump /injack "Most of those fires and detonations of butane were preventable by just a modicum of care"

Not just most, nearly 100%, it's the foolish first timers, and greedy morons, eliminate those two groups and this thread wouldn't exist.

 

[ceosam]

Windless days and water heater pilot flames can get you in trouble, even outdoors.

 

[jcom]

I agree with ceosam, nothing is 100% foolproof. Add some of the people I've assessed on this site and others, simply by their lack of ability to even write a complete English sentence, and that ability to be foolproof declines drastically.

 

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http://www.reporterherald.com/news/...8895/hash-oil-operation-cited-explosion-cause

Hash oil operation cited as explosion cause
By Reporter-Herald Staff
Posted: 01/26/2015 07:51:46 PM MST

FORT COLLINS — The Larimer County Sheriff's Office says a fire Monday at a home in the 600 block of Eric Street in unincorporated Larimer County appears to have been caused by a hash oil explosion.

Public information officer David Moore said in a press release that the fire caused significant damage to the kitchen and rear patio door of the home, but no one was inside when the explosion occurred and no one was hurt.

He said the initial investigation led authorities to believe it was a hash oil manufacturing explosion, and an investigation is ongoing.

 

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http://www.latimes.com/local/la-me-butane-hash-20140206-story.html#page=1


Making butane hash a lethal mix in home drug labs

A butane hash chef makes pure, amber "butane honey oil" which he spreads on a piece of wax paper where it will solidify and eventually be sold.

The "chef" hunkered over a batch of hash oil he was making in a kitchen in Redondo Beach, using a common but extremely dangerous method known as "open blasting. "The 26-year-old meticulously stirred and heated the marijuana extract into the highest clarity, slowly producing "butane honey oil" that would be as clear and pure as amber.

This potent type of hash, also called "wax," has taken off in the marijuana market with the rise of electronic cigarettes and other vaporizing devices. Dabs of it can be vaporized and inhaled without the smoke and pungent odor of weed, an act called "dabbing." And they bring on a soaring high even among longtime cannabis smokers who have a strong tolerance for the drug.

But the butane used to extract the essential oil of the marijuana plant frequently blows up in the faces of the people making the wax.

In the last 14 months, at least 17 cooks and bystanders have landed in Southern California burn centers with catastrophic injuries, a toll far worse than from meth lab explosions. In Northern California, the UC Davis Health System's burn unit treated 27 victims last year with similar injuries, and six have come in during the last two weeks. Officials suspect that the overall numbers are much higher because victims don't disclose the illicit cause of their injuries.

I worked in the tech industry for t0 years, the one thing you learn right off the bat, static kills! Not you, but the electronics you work with. It was more than likely his nylon shorts that cause the spark, not his shirt. To this day! I only have clothes made of cotton, its non-conductive,...

The Redondo chef, who asked to withhold his name because making this type of hash is a felony, started by packing a glass pipe with discarded marijuana trimmings. He put vinyl mesh over one end and sprayed a high-pressure canister of liquid butane in the other end. The butane — better known as lighter fluid — bonded with the resin glands in the marijuana, and the solution poured into a Pyrex baking dish placed in a larger dish of nearly boiling water.

He stirred and heated it for hours, while butane slowly evaporated out of the solution to leave the purified, nonexplosive wax. All that time, the butane gas was spilling into the air.

"When butane is expelled into a room, it is odorless and colorless," said Ashley Rosen, a Los Angeles County deputy district attorney in the major narcotics division. "It builds up in the room until it's basically a bomb."

Rosen first heard of a butane hash explosion in January 2013, and since then has prosecuted 26 people under a law originally designed to stop PCP and meth manufacturing.

The explosions are a growing side effect of California's unregulated medical marijuana industry. The act of manufacturing butane hash is a criminal offense, but pot supply stores can legally sell the butane canisters, dispensaries can sell the hash and anyone with a doctor's recommendation can buy marijuana and "vape" it.

In other words, there is a legal, lucrative market for a product that is illegal to make.

Safer forms of production exist where it is sanctioned and regulated under state law. In Colorado's highly controlled market, state officials this month set forth rules requiring hash oil producers to follow the same procedures that manufacturers use to extract oils from plants to make canola oil, fragrances, food additives, pharmaceuticals and shampoo.

Butane extraction must be done in a closed loop system so that no vapor escapes, in rooms with powerful ventilation systems. And the facilities must comply with health and safety codes and be inspected by a certified industrial hygienist or professional engineer.

"I'm glad to see open blasting go the way of the dodo," said Ry Prichard, a dab enthusiast in Colorado who works with a company that makes butane honey oil.

In California, once at the forefront of the legalization movement, open blasting is still the norm.

With less than $20 worth of equipment, clandestine "blasters" can do it in their garages, kitchens and backyards. There are safer and potentially legal ways for the home cook to make hash — which has been smoked in some form for millennia — but the butane-extracted variety is considered extremely potent.

The best safety measure is to work outside, but many makers don't because discovery could bring them seven years in prison.

The Redondo chef worked next to a fan in an open window — with the curtain mostly closed so neighbors couldn't see. He made sure he didn't drag his feet on the carpet to generate static. He moved slowly so as not to bump something with the glass tube and cause a spark.

But he knew that none of this is fail-safe. The fan could have an internal spark.

Many explosions occur when people put their solution on hold in the refrigerator before they have boiled away the butane. The heavy vapor seeps around the wiring in the cooler and blows up.

Or people forget that a pilot light is on. Or someone lights a joint in the next room.

Dr. Peter Grossman, co-director of the Grossman Burn Centers, has treated 12 butane hash makers for catastrophic burns since late 2012. The deep flash burns covered 25% to 95% of their bodies. All of the patients required skin grafts and weeks in the hospital. Many will need years of reconstructive surgery and will never look the same again.

"We've seen complications that have led to lower-leg amputations," Grossman said. "We've seen significant disfigurement to the face. The cost of getting a high is a lot more expensive than these people think."

One victim in his 30s, who did not want to use his name, ran outside after his batch exploded. He ripped off his burning shirt and his nylon shorts before passing out in pain. He woke up at a Southern California burn center three weeks later with second- and third-degree burns over 51% of his body, including most of his face.

He stayed there 91 days and had 16 skin grafts. He has just started walking again, requires steroid injections every month and needs many more facial surgeries.

He thinks a static spark from his shirt ignited the butane. He had taken the same precautions as the Redondo cook — an open window, a fan and the pilot light turned off.

"You think you're doing everything to prevent a fire," he said. "But anything can happen. Your life is worth more than money."

But for now, that money is luring people to take the risks. A hash maker can get a pound of marijuana "trim" — the discarded leaves cut off salable cannabis buds — for $50 to $100. The butane will cost $30. The process should net at least 20 grams of wax, which can be sold to dispensaries for well over $400.

A lot of younger pot users prefer dabbing, as well as some medical users who don't want to inhale smoke of the burned plant. The content of the psychoactive molecule THC in wax can be more than 70%, compared to less than 20% of most marijuana.

"One of my friends came over and wanted to try wax," said Nicole, 22, of Huntington Beach, who asked to withhold her last name. "I let her take a toke, and she was like, 'Why did you do that to me?' "


But some see dabs as the future. Concentrates, in general, are big business — in marijuana-infused foods, tinctures and drinks.

"Some people don't want to smoke because smoking is so out of vogue in general," said Prichard, the Colorado dabber. "It's a quick dose. I prefer it because I don't like sitting around 10 minutes smoking a joint."

Prichard said companies are still working to perfect the vapor device. Some mix the oil with propylene glycol to make a liquid that can be put it in plain e-cigarettes and vapor pens. But vaporizing the pure wax dabs is often done in what looks like an elaborate crack pipe.
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I worked in the tech industry for t0 years, the one thing you learn right off the bat, static kills! Not you, but the electronics you work with. It was more than likely his nylon shorts that cause the spark, not his shirt. To this day! I only have clothes made of cotton, its non-conductive,...

 

[SkyHighLer]

Why write a story supposedly to save lives, and then base much of your article on an indoor BHO extraction demo from the type of jerk we refer to as a BHOtard? You gave credence to the 'chef's' safety regimen by leading other's to believe you were ok with it, except for maybe a couple of little concerns here and there... ;-) In the kitchen, with a fan in the window? I wouldn't have stood there and watched, that's frickin' scary.

 

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http://www.ksby.com/news/explosion-...iscover-a-suspected-hash-oil-lab-in-los-osos/

Explosion and fire leads sheriff's deputies to discover a suspected hash oil lab in Los Osos

An explosion and fire at an apartment in Los Osos led deputies to a suspected butane honey oil conversion lab, the San Luis Obispo County Sheriff's Office says.

The incident happened at about 4:30 Tuesday afternoon on the 1300 block of Los Olivos Avenue.

Initial reports said a toaster caught fire in the kitchen of the apartment and spread to the cabinets, deputies say.

A man inside the apartment, identified as 32-year-old Matthew David Culver, was able to use a fire extinguisher to put out the fire, deputies say. Culver was then able to drive to a local hospital to receive treatment for burns to his face and arms, but was later transferred to a burn center in Fresno, deputies say.

When deputies from the Sheriff's Narcotics Unit responded and investigated, they say they found evidence of a butane honey oil conversion lab, which is used to convert marijuana into hash oil or honey oil.

Culver now faces charges of manufacturing a controlled substance, officials say.

He also faces an additional charge of elder abuse because deputies say an elderly man who leases the apartment was inside when the explosion and fire happened. He was not hurt and deputies do not consider him a suspect.

 

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http://www.wptv.com/news/region-c-p...ach/butane-hash-oil-labs-the-danger-next-door


WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - You can't paint a much prettier picture than the one I saw recently at an apartment complex on SE Sedona Circle in Stuart. Manicured. Quiet. Until it wasn't one day last December. One resident told me, "I thought it was a fire. I just heard fire." She was describing an explosion and fire that knocked out windows and forced dozens of people in the apartment complex to evacuate. No one was hurt. This time. Lucky for them.

Investigators say behind closed doors a couple was involved in dangerous "home cooking". It involved butane hash oil -- a nasty recipe that pulls the oils from a marijuana leaf.

Martin County Sheriff William Snyder says two labs have been busted so far. Along with them a half dozen arrests or so. Another butane hash oil lab explosion brought investigators to Boca Raton last year.

Snyder told me it is hard to detect these labs, which can be next door to law abiding citizens. He said, "That is the problem with these butane hash oil operations and methamphetamines. They can be anywhere."

Daniel Vranich and Anna Kellogg got busted, accused by detectives of running the lab in Stuart. It also appeared that two small children lived there too.

Evidence photos showed rolls of marijuana and the cans of butane. A paste is created when the ingredients are mixed and cooked. Put it in an e-cigarette--that's how many people are using it--and the high is far stronger than ordinary pot.

Snyder said, "What we are seeing is that THC, the active ingredient that causes hallucinations, is 80 percent in this drug, compared to 20 percent in states where it is legal.

Powerful pot---and explosive dangers because butane vapors can ignite in a flash. Just ask Wayne Winkler. He tried cooking the hash oil in Colorado and landed in the hospital with severe burns. Winkler said, "It was an explosion. In my face. Over my hands, and my hands were literally melted off."

All of it makes for the kind of danger Susan Sinko never imagined when she moved to her Stuart apartment. She told me, "When we came into this neighborhood we thought this is where I want to raise our kids. I'm shocked."

It's a reminder that no neighborhood is insulated from the war on drugs.

 

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Fire in Arvada leads to double discovery -- hash oil and pot plants

By Anthony Cotton
The Denver Post Posted: 02/05/2015 05:36:23 PM MST5 Comments | Updated: about 17 hours ago




Marijuana plant (John Leyba, Denver Post file photo)



First, investigators linked a fire in an Arvada home Wednesday to explosion caused by attempted hash oil extraction. Then police discovered something more — more than 400 marijuana plants in two separate buildings on the property.
Wheat Ridge police said an unidentified suspect has been arrested on charges of cultivation of marijuana in the case, which began at about 4:28 p.m., when police officers were called to a home in the 4100 block of Youngfield Street by firefighters with the Arvada Fire Protection District.
The firefighters were in the area, police said, when they observed a fire at the home. Firefighters were able to extinguish the flames and observed evidence of a butane explosion due to attempted hash oil extraction. Police found the marijuana plants soon after.
Wheat Ridge building inspectors deemed the buildings uninhabitable due to numerous unsafe modifications. Wheat Ridge police said it will release more information on the case as it becomes available.

 

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http://www.sanluisobispo.com/2015/02/04/3475739_los-osos-man-hash-oil-fire.html?rh=1


Hash oil suspect was convicted in similar fire that burned boy [Don't hear of to many people getting blown up and fried twice, once is enough for most.]

By Matt Fountain

[email protected]ruary 4, 2015

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Los Osos man burned in suspected hash oil operation

A man accused of making hash oil and starting a small fire in a Los Osos apartment Tuesday was convicted in 2010 of manufacturing oil in another case that court records show resulted in a fire that injured an 11-year-old boy.

As of Wednesday afternoon, Matthew David Culver, 32, of Los Osos was still being treated for severe burns to his face and arms in the burn center of the Community Regional Medical Center in Fresno and had not yet been booked into San Luis Obispo County Jail, Sheriff’s Office spokesman Tony Cipolla said.

Investigators plan to charge Culver with suspicion of manufacturing a controlled substance and elder abuse after he is released, according to a news release.

Firefighters responded at about 4:21 p.m. to a report of a fire at an apartment in the 1300 block of Los Olivos Avenue in Los Osos. When they arrived, they found the fire had been extinguished and that one of the residents had taken himself to a local hospital to be treated for burns, a Cal Fire spokesman said.

The San Luis Obispo County Sheriff’s Narcotics Unit arrived and allegedly found evidence of a butane honey oil conversion lab, which uses highly volatile butane to convert low-grade marijuana into concentrated hash oil, also called honey oil.

An elderly man who leases the apartment was inside when the fire occurred but was not injured.

Culver has a long list of criminal convictions and is currently awaiting a preliminary hearing in San Luis Obispo Superior Court for a Jan. 23 arrest on suspicion of intending to sell more than 25 pounds of marijuana, court documents show. He pleaded not guilty to that charge on Jan. 28 and was allowed to remain out of jail while awaiting his next hearing.

Court records also show that Culver was tried and convicted in 2010 for making oil after the oil-conversion process caused a fire in a residential trailer in Templeton in November 2009 that injured an 11-year-old boy.

According to a Sheriff’s Office report of the incident, a child welfare worker spoke to the boy following the fire. The social worker later told a detective that the boy, who was the son of Culver’s then-girlfriend, said he would often assist Culver in making oil in the trailer’s kitchen.

The boy later told the detective that he was helping Culver mix the oil in a bowl on a counter next to the stove when the bowl tipped over, causing a small explosion and fire, according to the detective’s report.

The boy reportedly said Culver had to break a window to run a hose into the house and put out the fire. The boy allegedly suffered minor burns to the face.

Culver was not convicted of child endangerment in that case and pleaded no contest to a single felony charge of manufacturing a controlled substance.

He has a long list of local felony convictions dating back to 2005, including possession of concentrated cannabis, petty theft, receiving stolen property and being a felon in possession of a firearm.

San Luis Obispo County narcotics officers have made several arrests in recent years for alleged hash oil operations that caused fires and, in some cases, mild explosions.

 

[fcjohnny]

It's wild to see so many explosions going on all over the place. Everyone seems to love open blasting in their home.

 

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http://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/n...searching-for-cause-of-martin-county-h/nj5DH/


Update: Palm City man charged with manufacturing hash oil

Expanding Florida’s medical pot law may hinge on it not being smokable

A Palm City man arrested for producing hash oil remains in a Miami burn center after an explosion at his home Wednesday night.

Kevin Patrick Hubbard, 27, faces charges of manufacturing hash oil, arson, possession of cannabis over 20 grams and possession of hash oil, the Martin County Sheriff’s Office announced Thursday. Hubbard was taken to Jackson Memorial Hospital with serious burns to his lower extremities but is expected to make a full recovery, Sheriff William Snyder said.
Explosion in Palm City townhome sends one to hospital photo
Authorities are trying to determine the cause of an explosion inside a Palm City townhome that injured a man Wednesday night (Martin County Sheriff’s Office Facebook).

Hubbard told responding fire fighters that he was making creme brulee when the explosion occurred. But deputies found material associated with producing hash oil including 582 grams of marijuana, multiple cans of butane and a hash oil manufacturing device.

The butane hash oil explosion is the second since December in Martin County. Two people were arrested in Stuart on Dec. 31, one day after an explosion that left 35 people displaced because of a fire.

Snyder said that butane hash oil manufacturing is an “emerging trend” and that the two arrests in Martin County are “only the tip of the iceberg” and signal a growing problem.
Update: Palm City man charged with manufacturing hash oil photo
To-do list found by Martin County Sheriff’s deputies.

“It’s an absolute mess we don’t need in our community,” Snyder said.

Among the items found by deputies at Hubbard’s home was a to-do list. Topping the list were the words, “Make BHO (butane hash oil).”

The explosion took place at 3395 SW Sunset Trace Circle in Palm City in a townhome owned by Hubbard’s mother, Snyder said. Hubbard’s mother was not aware that her son was producing hash oil, Snyder said.

 

[JointOperation]

a friend of mine.. just blew up lastnight.. in the hospital 50-60% of his body covered in burns.. and baddd.. his hoody and beanie were melted to his body.. and this is with a passive system.. not a CLS..

and the ignition source was a friend who showed up unannounced smoking a ciggarette.. he lost his eye lashes and has a few small burns.. but he almost killed my friend...

this is why i do not allow people to show up when they want to .. if you dont call.. dont show up or i dont deal with you ever again period. i dont like surprises..

sucks i was supposed to be there helping him. but i had my own bho to run so i didnt go..

this was done in a screened in porch type thing on his back deck about 30 feet from the house.. and his siding still has signs of melting.. even with the snow and cold..

 

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http://www.abc15.com/news/region-we...lendale-apartment-possibly-linked-to-meth-lab



Fire: Police investigate cause of explosion at Glendale apartment
abc15.com staff
6:56 PM, Feb 4, 2015
11:31 PM, Feb 4, 2015
glendale | west valley
KNXV

GLENDALE, AZ - A 21-year-old woman is in the hospital after an explosion and fire at a Glendale apartment complex and her fiance is in police custody.

Glendale police and fire responded to the apartment complex near 52nd Avenue and Thunderbird Road shortly after 6 p.m.

Neighbors reported hearing an explosion and seeing a fire at a bottom apartment followed by a second blast a few minutes later. The young woman's grandmother says the fiance told her to get out after the first blast and he pulled the woman out to curb where paramedics took over when they arrived.

Police Sgt. David Vidaure said both victims suffered minor injuries and preliminary information indicates the fire may be related to "illicit activity."

A witness on scene tells ABC 15 she heard the young man who lives in the apartment say they were making hash oil with butane that set off the blast. The couple's friends say they had medical marijuana cards, but police have not verified that.

Vidaure later said two people were reportedly seen running from the apartment. Officials are working to locate those two individuals.

Air15 video showed several fire crews at the apartment complex with residents waiting in the parking lot.

No other details were immediately available.