TULSA - Tulsa firefighters responded to a hotel room fire and found an active meth lab, police say.

Firefighters responded to the call around 9 p.m. at the Tulsa Select Hotel at 5000 E. Skelly Dr.

When police arrived, no suspects were on the scene.

Tulsa Hazmat was called in to clean up the meth lab.

About 40 people were evacuated from hotels near Auckland Airport last night after fumes from a pesticide, which has historically been used in chemical warfare, wafted through their windows from a neighbouring farm.

International guests at Kiwi International Hotel and the Airport Skyway Lodge on Kirkbride Rd, Mangere, started getting itchy eyes due to strong fumes in the air, Fire Service incident controller Grant Thompson said.

One neighbour told NZPA the sensation was similar to when you cut onions.

The Fire Service was called around 10pm and it was established the fumes were caused by a neighbouring strawberry farmer who had poured the soil fumigant chloropicrin on his paddock.

Mr Thompson said the chemical was treated with respect because it has been used in chemical warfare.

The Sleep Inn at 485 Madison Ave. in North Liberty was evacuated Wednesday morning after a chlorine spill was reported to the North Liberty Fire Department.

One person was treated on scene for exposure to the chemical, Capt. Craig Voparil of the North Liberty Fire Department said. According to Voparil, firefighters were dispatched to the hotel at 7:10 a.m. Wednesday.

The Johnson County Haz-Mat Team, North Liberty Police Department and Johnson County Ambulance responded to the incident. Voparil said it took crews about seven hours to dilute and clean up the spill.

Slidell Police believe the man who allegedly blew up a room at the La Quinta Inn with a make-shift meth lab Thursday night is on the run in Alabama.

Scott Threlkeld, The Times-Picayune
Police and fire department officials respond to the discovery of a methamphetamine lab Thursday at the La Quinta inn in Slidell.
Brandon Bell, 28, was allegedly trying to make meth in his second-floor room in the hotel at 794 East Interstate 10 Service Road when the ingredients exploded about 6:20 p.m., Assistant Slidell Police Chief Kevin Foltz said.

LOWER NAZARETH TOWNSHIP, Pa. -- Colonial Regional Police arrested a man after he admitted to cooking methamphetamine in a hotel room in Lower Nazareth Township.
It happened at the Hampton Inn on the Easton Nazareth Highway just before 11:00p.m. Saturday.
Police said fire officials were dispatched to the hotel for a report of a fire alarm going off in room 222.
When officials arrived, they said room was filled with smoke and had a strong chemical smell.

The Saskatoon fire department briefly closed a hotel pool Tuesday after a hazardous chemical scare.

Just after noon, the department's hazardous materials team responded to a report of a chemical spill at the Travelodge Hotel on Circle Drive East, says a fire department news release.

An employee was preparing water treatment for the pool when two of the substances -sodium hypo-chloride and an acid base -used in the treatment were spilled on the floor of the pool's mechanical room. The employee called 911 after noticing the spill resulted in a chemical reaction.

The hazmat team locked down the pool area but did not evacuate the hotel because the spill was determined to be minor. The employee did not require medical treatment.

Dozens of people, mostly children, were treated for unknown respiratory ailments Saturday after swimming in a South Lubbock hotel pool.

Dozens of people, mostly children, were treated for unknown respiratory ailments Saturday after swimming in a South Lubbock hotel pool.

First responders set up a medical triage in front of Embassy Suites hotel, Slide Road and South Loop 289, to treat 24 people who started having trouble breathing while in and around the hotel’s indoor swimming pool.

An early morning fire at a Kilgore motel resulted three arrests Wednesday after charred evidence revealed a methamphetamine lab and counterfeiting equipment.

Emergency workers responded to the America’s Best Value Inn and Suites, located at 3298 U.S. Highway 259, where reports indicated a room caught on fire.

“After the hotel was evacuated and the fire extinguished within the room, the cause of the fire was soon discovered to be a methamphetamine lab,” Police Lt. Roman Roberson said in a press statement.

Investigators recovered approximately four grams of methamphetamine along with laboratory equipment and chemicals commonly used for manufacturing the drug.

On Wednesday, February 16, 2011 at 12:03 a.m. the Kilgore Fire Department and Kilgore Police Department responded to America's Best Value Inn and Suites, 3298 U. S. Highway 259 North, Kilgore, Texas in regards to a reported fire in one of the rooms. After the hotel was evacuated and the fire extinguished within the room, the cause of the fire was soon discovered to be a methamphetamine lab.

Approximately 4.1 grams of Methamphetamine was recovered from the room along with laboratory equipment and chemicals commonly used in the manufacture of methamphetamine. Further investigation revealed a large amount of counterfeiting equipment along with counterfeit checks, counterfeit money and forged identification in an adjacent room. DEA agents along with a Haz-Mat team responded to assist with the investigation and chemical recovery. At the time of this press release, the following three (3) arrests have been made in connection to this incident:

MACON, GA -- Managers of a Macon hotel called authorities Sunday after someome complained about smoke and chemical odors coming from one of the guest rooms.

Bibb County Sheriff's deputies found a methamphetamine lab inside the room at the Baymont Inn and Suites on Plantation Drive near Interstate 475. A statement from the sheriff's office said investigators found meth as well a fire damage in the bathroom from the drug's production.

Authorities are now looking 32-year-old Gregory Shawn Hall, the West Bibb County Man the room was registered to. He wasn't in the room when officers arrived.

AURORA - A motel manager concerned chemicals found in a room could be from a meth lab sparked a HazMat investigation on Saturday.


The manager called 911 at 9:55 a.m. after finding the chemicals at the Pacesetter motel located at 14291 E. Colfax Ave, on the east side of Interstate 225.

Capt. Allen Robnett, a spokesperson for the Aurora Fire Department, says firefighters are unsure what the chemicals were so they treated it as a hazardous materials situation.

Robnett says no one has been injured, but at least a portion of the motel has been evacuated.

9NEWS spoke to a hotel manager Saturday afternoon who said the chemicals turned out to be non-hazardous and the motel is back to normal.

CHESTERFIELD - State Police have arrested a Florida man and charged him with manufacturing drugs after a traffic stop for expired license plates and a search of his Chesterfield hotel room led to the discovery of a methamphetamine lab.

Shortly before 9 a.m. Wednesday, Trooper S.D. Holland was flagged down in the 2400 block of West Hundred Road in Chesterfield County. The citizen told the trooper of suspicious activity in the area and provided information on the suspect to the officer.

The trooper then saw the suspect getting into a vehicle and initiated a traffic stop based on expired license plates.

According to State Police Sgt. Thomas Molnar, based on information received from the suspect and after an affidavit for a search warrant was obtained, a search of the suspect's room was conducted.

Additionally, six other rooms were evacuated as a precautionary measure.

Inside the hotel room, authorities found an active meth lab. Molnar said that the suspect, Joshua A. Rhodes, 31, of Valrico, Fla., had been in the room for several days.

"Chemicals used in making meth are highly poisonous and could pose a hazard to first responders, and law enforcement officers who are investigating the incident as well as to the environment, if exposed to them," Molnar said of the chemicals used in the manufacture of the drug.

A man was injured Tuesday night when he set himself on fire while cooking methamphetamine inside an area hotel room, according to authorities.

Clarksville Fire Rescue and Emergency Medical Services responded to a fire alarm at the Value Place Inn, at 675 Kennedy Lane, at 8:46 p.m. Tuesday. By the time emergency crews arrived, the sprinkler system had extinguished the fire, Fire Marshall Ray Williams said. Williams said a man who was staying in room 328 was outside trying to use snow to cool himself off when crews arrived.

A search of his room uncovered a burned bathtub, a one-gallon can of camp fuel and the burned remains of a plastic Coke bottle. There was also a strong odor of camp fuel coming from the room, Williams said.

"The temperature in that room had to reach at least 155 degrees for the sprinkler system to come on," Williams said. "We suspected that it was things used to cook meth."

The man had second- and third-degree burns on his face, neck, chest and both arms, Williams said. The man was sedated and transported to Vanderbilt University Medical Center's burn unit. He man has not been identified, and his condition is unknown at this time.

CHESTERFIELD COUNTY — Chesterfield Fire and EMS Hazmat team and Virginia State Police are investigating a meth lab inside the Day's Inn in the 2400 block of West Hundred Road near Interstate 95 in Chester.

Virginia State Police arrested 31-year-old Joshua A. Rhodes, of Valrico, FL and charged him with one count of manufacturing a Controlled Substance (Methamphetamines) which is a Felony. 

CBS 6 Reporter Jon Burkett spoke to a motel worker who says he discovered what looked like a meth lab in a motel room Wednesday morning.

WHEAT RIDGE - The Arvada Fire Department says potentially hazardous materials were found inside a hotel room at the Ramada Inn at 4700 Kipling about 8:45 Sunday morning. Fire and hazardous material crews responded to the scene.

Hotel employees found the materials while cleaning the rooms and notified emergency crews. The employees were decontaminated as a precaution and released at the scene.

It is believed that the materials may be from a possible methamphetamine lab but the situation is still under investigation by the drug task force team.

An investigation and evacuation were launched Sunday night at the Marriott Denver West, following the discovery of a body at the hotel and a suspicious odor.

A very active crime scene developed outside the hotel. The call-out involved several fire agencies, the police department, a hazmat mobile unit, the bomb squad and K-9 units.

Thirty-two guests were evacuated from their rooms, left to wonder what had prompted the emergency.

Kristy Kon was just one of the many guests evacuated from the Marriott. According to Kon, “It’s kind of creepy. Who knows what’s going on especially with all these ambulances?”

It all started around 5 p.m., when two maids found a person dead in their room, along with noticing the strong smell of sulfur.

Firefighter Micki Trost with West Metro Fire District said, “The items that they saw and the smell that they encountered, is not going to cause harm to anyone else in the building and identify what is in that room.”

Initial reports were given that the body found was a possible suicide.

Authorities aren’t saying what types of items were found in the room, or in what quantities. They’re also monitoring the air to determine what the odor might be, and when it will be safe for guests to return to their rooms.

During the evacuation, the guests have been allowed to stay in the hotel’s restaurant which was deemed to be safe.

PARMA, Idaho – A Parma movie theater was put on lockdown Saturday night after several people began complaining of a burning sensation in their eyes.
It happened around 7:45 p.m. at the Motor Vu drive-in theater. The theater offered a Trunk-or-Treat event and then played a monster movie.
An EMS crew was on scene as part of the festivities and some people walked over to the ambulance, saying they felt a burning sensation in their eyes.
Many more people followed with a similar complaint and even the EMS crew was affected.
According to Parma Fire District Fire Chief James Cook, several fire and EMS crews were called onto the scene and the theater was locked down.
"Our idea was to keep control of the situation," Cook said.

Cook said it became apparent once they were on scene what the irritant was and called the lockdown so as not to create a panic.

That irritant was chloropicrin fumigant, which was used Friday in a field south of the drive-in. The fumigant is designed to kill bugs in the soil and is trenched into the soil about 6 to 10 inches. Occasionally, pockets of the fumigant get released into the air, which is what caused the reaction in the people at the theater.

CHARLESTON, SC (WCSC) – The Charleston County Sheriff's Office responded to a meth lab near Old Peter Millers Saturday morning at 4213 Savannah Highway.

Deputies say 39-year-old John Phillips of North Charleston is in custody after a meth lab was discovered at the Budget Inn Motel.

EAST BRUNSWICK — A mid-afternoon explosion Wednesday inside a room at the Motel 6 off Route 18 brought scores of police and firefighters into the busy Edgeboro Road neighborhood to find what they believe was a methamphetamine lab gone wrong and a suspect from Kansas.

Officers arrested Christopher Markley, 23 or 24 years old, of Columbus, Kan., after he fled in a vehicle down lower Edgeboro Road, alongside where Middlesex County operates offices and a landfill, said the incident commander, Sgt. Paul Natalicchio, at the scene, and Lt. Edward Janzekovich at police headquarters.

"We think he was trying to produce methamphetamine,'' Natalicchio said as firefighters and hazardous-material responders packed up their gear after cautiously entering the room while wearing astronaut-like sealed suits.

GRAND RAPIDS -- Grand Rapids firefighters and hazardous materials units responded to a chemical spill along 28th Street SE early this morning.
Crews were called to a building at 100 28th St SE that houses Model Coverall Service Inc. after a mixture of ammonia and other chemicals spilled and combined.
No injuries were reported in the accident, which happen about 5:30 a.m.
Traffic on 28th Street backed up as drivers slowed to see what was going on. A strong smell of ammonia filled the air as crews worked inside the building.

DALLAS, TEXAS - Earlier today, Dallas Fire-Rescue (DFR) responded to a call at the Dallas Hometown Suites from a man who was feeling dizzy and faint. Paramedics treated the man and transported him to a local hospital.
However, a DFR worker soon began to exhibit the same symptoms, so firefighters immediately suspected that a carbon monoxide leak had taken place in the building. The firefighters notified DFR's Hazardous Materials Team (Hazmat).
The residents that were home at the time quickly evacuated to the Radisson Hotel across the street while Hazmat shut the gas off to the building and located the leak.
It's still unknown what started the leak. However, there were no life threatening injuries during the events, according to DFR.