Two hurt, one missing after explosion rocks Bay Area apartment complex
An explosion in an apartment building in the Bay Area city of Walnut Creek on Friday morning injured at least two people and left a gaping hole in the complex, fire officials said. Few details about...
View ArticleCrews respond to reported apartment explosion
WALNUT CREEK, Calif. — Fire crews responded to reports of an explosion Friday at a San Francisco Bay Area apartment complex that left two people with critical burn injuries, a fire captain said. Contra...
View ArticleHash Oil Explosion Leaves At Least 2 Critically Burned
WALNUT CREEK, Calif. (AP) — Butane gas from a hash-oil operation caused an explosion that left two men critically burned and another missing and forced dozens to evacuate at a San Francisco Bay Area...
View Article>2 critically burned in hash-oil apartment blast
WALNUT CREEK, Calif. (AP) — Butane gas from a hash-oil operation caused an explosion that left two men critically burned and another missing and forced dozens to evacuate at a San Francisco Bay Area...
View Article2 critically burned in hash-oil apartment blast
WALNUT CREEK, Calif. — Butane gas from a hash-oil operation caused an explosion that left two men critically burned and another missing and forced dozens to evacuate at a San Francisco Bay Area...
View ArticleMan who sparked apartment fire while making hash oil sentenced to five years
Donnivan Whitcher told a federal judge Tuesday the explosion caused by a marijuana extraction method at his north Spokane apartment in January 2014 was an accident. “I didn’t mean to hurt anybody,”...
View ArticleOfficials: 2 dead, many hurt in Maryland apartment blaze
SILVER SPRING, Md. (AP) — At least two people died and dozens, including three firefighters, were injured after an explosion and large fire at an apartment complex in a Maryland suburb of Washington...
View ArticleDozens hurt, several missing after DC-area apartment blast
SILVER SPRING, Md. — Dozens of people, including three firefighters, were injured after an explosion and large fire at an apartment complex in a Maryland suburb of Washington and searchers are looking...
View ArticleWalnut Creek Explosion Injures Three, Destroys Four Apartments
Authorities said the blast occurred at approximately 10:20 a.m. on Saturday morning. Contra Costa Fire District Battalion Chief Jim Howard confirmed the explosion caused damage in a 200-foot radius...
View ArticleWesterly Resident Sentenced for Operating Butane Hash Oil Lab (United States...
(Source: United States Attorney's Office for the District of Rhode Island) PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Scott Slagel, 41, of Westerly, RI, was sentenced today by U.S. District Court Judge John J. McConnell, Jr.,...
View ArticleMan arrested after suspected hash oil explosion rocks apartment
The man was one of two people that witnesses saw running from the apartment complex at 4363 S. Quebec St. Denver police...
View ArticleFeds seek maximum of 10 years in Bellevue hash-oil blast
SEATTLE (AP) — Federal prosecutors are seeking a 10-year, maximum sentence for a man who joined two tech workers in running a hash-oil operation that exploded in 2013, destroying a Bellevue apartment...
View ArticleExplosion at Kent home linked to hash oil operation
KENT, Wash. (AP) — Authorities say an explosion at a Kent home was apparently caused by efforts to make a...
View ArticleFalling tree branch halts BART service in East Bay
BART passengers were experiencing a severely disrupted commute as service was halted in parts of the East Bay...
View ArticleTwo charged in 2014 hash-oil explosion at apartment complex
Two men badly burned last year when a butane-fueled fire tore through an apartment complex have been charged with running a hash-oil operation that caused the explosion, authorities said Tuesday. ......
View Article'People were dropping children and jumping': Dozens hurt, 7 missing after...
"It was one big boom, like nothing I'd ever heard." - Resident Willie Morales SILVER SPRING, Md. (AP) — Dozens of people, including three firefighters, were injured after an explosion and large fire at...
View ArticleWalnut Creek: Riviera Family Apartments praised on several levels
From left, Walnut Creek City Council members Rich Carlston and Bob Simmons, and County Supervisor Candace Andersen, at Nov. 4’s groundbreaking for the Riviera Family Apartments. WALNUT CREEK — That the...
View ArticleFire official: Dozens hurt in Maryland apartment blaze
SILVER SPRING, Md. — Dozens of people, including three firefighters, were injured after a large fire at an apartment complex in a Maryland suburb of Washington and searchers are looking for up to seven...
View ArticleBody found after apartment fire at complex off Chenal Parkway in Little Rock
One person died in a fire at a Little Rock apartment complex Thursday morning, the Little Rock Fire Department...
View Article3-alarm fire burning at apartment complex
Fire crews fought a three-alarm blaze that spread to two apartment buildings Wednesday morning, a dispatcher for the Contra Costa Fire Protection District said. Crews were working to bring the fire in...
View ArticleDubai skyscraper catches fire, though no one killed in blaze
Add comment Reprints + - This photo provided by Jose Vicente shows flames coming from a high rise tower in Dubai's marina district Saturday, Feb. 21, 2015. The fire broke out early Saturday in the...
View ArticleKirkland pair to serve time for hash oil explosion
Two Kirkland men connected to a 2014 hash oil lab explosion were sentenced to federal prison Tuesday. Robby Wayne Meiser, 46, was sentenced to 30 months in prison, while 62-year-old Bruce W. Mark was...
View ArticleBody found after LR apartment fire
One person died in a fire at a Little Rock apartment complex Thursday morning, the Little Rock Fire Department...
View ArticleHash oil burns are a growing problem for Calif. hospitals
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Explosions and fires from the illegal manufacture of butane hash oil - cheap and easy to make but extremely volatile - have sharply increased in California in recent years....
View ArticleWesterly Resident Admits to Operating Butane Hash Oil Lab (United States...
(Source: United States Attorney's Office for the District of Rhode Island) PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Scott Slagel, 41, of Westerly, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Providence on Friday to endangering...
View ArticleMan, 22, charged in hash oil explosion, fire at Denver apartment complex
A 22-year-old man has been charged with multiple counts of arson following a hash oil explosion in northeast Denver. Nicholas Castro...
View ArticleDanville, San Ramon consider options for buying electricity
DANVILLE — Residents will have a chance to weigh in next week on a plan that could change how they get their electricity. Danville and San Ramon, along with Contra Costa County and other East Bay...
View ArticlePolice say second suspect in hash lab case surrenders
WALNUT CREEK -- An Oakland man was arrested and booked into County Jail Wednesday after turning himself in in connection with a hash-oil operation that led to a butane-fueled apartment fire more than a...
View ArticleFirefighters rescue 2 from burning apartment
Fast-acting Norwood firefighters are being credited with saving the lives of two people who were pulled from the second floor of a burning apartment early yesterday morning, fire officials said....
View ArticleSheriff: Vail man burned in hash oil explosion faces felony charges
( | ) Authorities in Eagle County say a 24-year-old man faces felony charges after sustaining second-degree burns on 25 percent of his body in an...
View ArticleMan burned in blast making hash oil sues butane businesses
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) An Oregon medical marijuana patient who was badly burned in an explosion while he was legally using butane as a solvent to make hash oil is suing the makers and sellers of the...
View ArticleFire official: 2 critically burned in reported San Francisco Bay Area...
WALNUT CREEK, Calif. (AP) — Fire official: 2 critically burned in reported San Francisco Bay Area...
View ArticleApartment blaze sends 3 firefighters to hospital
It took the Houston Fire Department about two hours to extinguish a blaze that gutted at least 60 units at a northwest-side apartment complex and sent three firefighters to the hospital. The blaze...
View ArticleSeattle Field Division – Spokane Man Sentenced for Arson, Resulting from...
(Source: ATF - Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives) Spokane Man Sentenced for Arson Resulting from Butane Hash Oil Explosion SPOKANE, Wash. - On March 3, 2015, Donnivan Whitcher of...
View ArticleSpokane Man Sentenced for Arson Resulting from Butane Hash Oil Explosion (ATF...
(Source: ATF - Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives) Spokane Man Sentenced for Arson Resulting from Butane Hash Oil Explosion SPOKANE, Wash. - On March 3, 2015, Donnivan Whitcher of...
View ArticleWoman Mauled By Pet Pit Bull In San Francisco Bay Area Home
PINOLE, Calif. (AP) — A 40-year-old woman in the San Francisco Bay Area was severely mauled by her family pit bull. Pinole Battalion Chief Steve Akre tells the Contra Costa Times newspaper...
View ArticlePit bull badly mauls woman at San Francisco Bay Area home
PINOLE, Calif. (AP) — A 40-year-old woman in the San Francisco Bay Area was severely mauled by her family pit bull. Pinole...
View ArticlePG&E to remove lead paint on transmission towers in Contra Costa, Alameda...
ANTIOCH — The Pacific Gas and Electric Company announced that it will end the use of lead-based paint on transmission towers and will begin the removal process on more than 6,000 towers this summer....
View ArticleArson suspect targeted groomsmen who didn’t support failed marriage
UPDATE: Walnut Creek suspect denies arsons against groomsmen in jailhouse interview https://t.co/9zsbtvHhjl @mgafni pic.twitter.com/1bUzPpa5Ig — Contra Costa Times (@CCTimes) January 6, 2016 MARTINEZ,...
View ArticlePrice of pot: Hash oil brewing explosions on the rise
Law-enforcement authorities and substance abuse experts agree that hash oil has been...
View ArticleThree hospitalized after fire breaks out in Coconut Creek apartment
A man was airlifted to a hospital's burn unit and two others were being treated for smoke inhalation after a fire broke out at a Coconut Creek apartment building Friday. When firefighters arrived at...
View ArticleSquatters suspected in blaze at vacant North Richmond duplex
NORTH RICHMOND — A suspicious fire that heavily damaged a vacant, boarded-up duplex in this unincorporated community Monday was most likely started by squatters, authorities said Tuesday. Officials...
View ArticleDiscarded cigarette suspected in blaze at Walnut Creek apartments
A two-alarm fire that may have been caused by an unattended smoldering cigarette heavily damaged or destroyed six...
View ArticleMan injured when suspected hash-oil lab blows up in Santa Rosa
A man was injured after a suspected butane hash-oil lab exploded in a shed in Santa Rosa, prompting the evacuation of nearby homes and an apartment complex, officials said Friday. Officers arrived on...
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