Letters from America: Questions and comments about meth labs

Letters from America is a place where visitors from all over the United States,  share their questions and comments about meth labs. If you have comments,  suggestions, or advice that you would like me to post in “Letters from America” please email me at methlabhomes@gmail.com.

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Mother of baby asks if cleaning a house well removes meth lab chemicals.

Meth hurts – read this important message from the son of a meth lab cook

First time home buyer says meth lab disclosure nixed deal

Renter who suspects her rental home may have been a meth lab, asks “what now”?

Home owner advises owners of contaminated property about hiring cleanup contractors.

Ohio renter wonders why landlord didn’t disclose that their home was used as a meth lab, when neighbors all knew about it.

Renter asks how long a property will remain contaminated after someone used or cooked meth in it.

Concerned mother of four children finds out from neighbors that her rental home was used as a meth lab.

Comments about the increase of meth labs.

House cleaner painter wonders if purple cleaning cloths are signs of meth lab chemicals.

Wife of soldier, with four children, fears husband may be kicked out of military because of meth lab home.

Tennessee family sickened by meth chemicals asks for help.

Question about decontaminating furniture in home contaminated by meth lab chemicals.

Former real estate agent thinks contaminated homes should be demolished.

Landlord questions duct tape placed over heat ducts.

Letter from a step mother of meth endangered children.

John Osborn denies meth lab burned his baby during jail house interview

John Osborn demonstrates how he flicked water in to french fry oil to see if it was heated yet.

During his jail house interview, John Osborn denied that Johna, his one-year-old daughter,  was burned as the result of a meth lab explosion on August 23.  Although, he admits to doing meth in the late 80s, he says he doesn’t do it now.

On the day that Johna got burned, he tells the interviewer,  he was Read more

Prosecutor wants retailers to take more control of instant cold packs

If you’re buying instant cold packs in Indiana to make meth and think no one will suspect what you’re doing, think again.  A Gibson County Prosecutor, who is concerned about “shake and bake” meth labs,  has asked retail store owners to help deter meth lab cooks from buying the cold packs in his county.  He wants retailers to manage the sale of instant cold packs, the way they manage the sale of Read more

US Soldiers sickened by chemical found in meth lab homes

Iraq war veteran Russ Kimberling Kimberling is one of nearly 50 current or former Guard members from Indiana, Oregon, and West Virginia who are suing over health problems caused by Chromium 6.

National Guard members from Indiana, Oregon, and West Virginia, are among the other U.S. soliders and civilians who have filed lawsuits against KBR, Inc, a company that they say failed to protect their health, while they were working at a water treatment plant for them in Iraq in 2003.  Hexavalent chromium, also known as Chromium-6,  is a chemical that got national exposure in the movie “Erin Brockovitch”, that starred Julia Roberts,  in 2000. Read more

Mobile, Alabama: Pine Trace Apartments meth lab explosion

Mobile, Alabama (Sept. 1, 2009): Police suspect that a meth lab is responsible for an explosion in an apartment at Pine Trace Apartments on Schaub Avenue in the Pinehurst subdivision in Mobile. Police and firefighters held back news reporters, as the smell of chemicals filled the air surrounding the blast. One man was taken to Providence hospital to be treated for burns, but he was later transferred to the USA Burn Center. Police are still investigating the incident.