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Detectives investigate possible drug lab after fire destroys Lancaster home

by The AV Times Staff • December 8, 2018

LANCASTER – Firefighters extinguished a blaze in a house in Lancaster Thursday night, and now authorities are investigating the possibility the home was used as a drug lab.

The fire erupted about 10 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 6, in the 40900 block of 172nd Street East, according to Lt. P. Bartlett of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department’s Lancaster Station.

A knockdown was declared about 10:40 p.m.

Narcotics Bureau detectives were at the scene Friday trying to determine if the location served as a drug lab, Bartlett said.

No injuries were reported and the cause of the fire is still under investigation.

No further information on the incident was immediately available.

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Filed Under: Crime/ Safety, Lancaster

4 comments for "Detectives investigate possible drug lab after fire destroys Lancaster home"

  1. justsayn says

    December 11, 2018 at 9:57 am

    typical in lake la. the town has gone to [removed]. drive through down the main street and you can see trash on the sides of roads, cars and cars and cars in backyards, motorhomes in backyards where the drug addicts live. the one’s that don’t have septic, trash service, running water etc. everything that is required by the county in order to live somewhere. the town used to be nice and some parts still are but a lot of it is one big dump. a pig sty. the county needs to go in there and clean the place up. it’s disgusting. and the saddest part is that the cops know all about what goes on there but nothing gets done about it.

  2. Seven says

    December 9, 2018 at 9:35 am

    Funny…. at the same time, there was another house fire or somthing by Quartz Hill HighSchool. Im guessing it was a water heater explosion as I did not see any black smoke, I only seen white puffy smoke from the house garage, with the firefighters near the water heater. There were a lot of police, my guess is, the surrounding neighbors thought the explosion was some sort of bomb or weapon when calling 911 which alerted mass authorities.

  3. Fire Investigation says

    December 8, 2018 at 2:42 pm

    A drug lab in Lancaster? That is really hard to believe.

    • Tom says

      December 8, 2018 at 9:25 pm

      It actually was in Lake La. Now its even more believable to be a drug lab.

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