A house
fire in Antioch, CA led investigators to discover an indoor marijuana growing
house. In January 2014, nearly 1,000
marijuana plants and cultivating equipment were seized by police after the
place caught on fire.
A
neighbor on Hidden Glen Drive saw the home’s electrical panel sparking and
called 9-1-1 around 9:00 p.m.
Firefighters found a number of marijuana plants inside the home and
called the police. Nobody was home at the time of the fire, so there were no
injuries to report. A power company
worker inspected the electrical panel to see if it is possibly what caused the
house to catch fire.
The fire
appears to have originated in the home’s dining room, but was quickly brought
under control. The home’s owners rigged
the home’s electrical system to bypass the utility meter and the set-up is what
had caused the electric panel to overheat.
Police
removed 960 plants from the two-story house located in the 4500 block of Hidden
Glen Drive, after serving a search warrant on the home hours after fireman put
out the blaze. The one-alarm fire began
in a wall behind a fuse box and fire crews had it put out within minutes of it
starting, according to fire inspector Steven Aubert of the Contra Costa Fire
Protection District.
Abuert
stated, “What’s fortunate is that it was a brand new home and it contained a
sprinkler system. That kept the fire to
its point of origin. The damage
sustained was very minimal.”
Morefield
stated the house was part of a large-scale marijuana growing operation. At the present time, police are still trying
to identify and locate the owners of the home.
Anybody with information about the fire is urged to call the Antioch,
California Police Department at (925) 779-6895.
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