>Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2001 08:19:55 -0400
>From: "Fisher, Robert" <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Dorm fire with a different kind of origin
>To: 'Randy Hormann' <[log in to unmask]>
>X-igwMailID: f3UCZVn26254.U03
>
  Randy,

  This dorm fire has an unusual kind of origin.  At least I hope it is
  unusual.

  Bob
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>Drugs eyed in DU dorm fire, 600 evacuated;
>student may have had latest in string of clandestine labs in Denver area
>By Sarah Huntley, News Staff Writer
>Denver Rocky Mountain News
>
>The cramped dorm room has all the trappings of a stereotypical freshman's:
>mounds of dirty laundry, skateboards, snapshots of a bikini-clad girl and
>ritzy sports cars, a laptop computer, a half-empty bottle of Jack Daniels
>and a pouch of beef jerky. But studying, sleeping and socializing
>weren't the only activities going on in Room 416 in the south tower
>of the University of Denver's Centennial Hall. A fire broke out in
>the room shortly after 11:40 p.m. Wednesday, leading to the
>discovery of what investigators are calling a makeshift drug lab.
>University officials said it appears that a student was trying to
>extract hashish oil from marijuana, when flammable liquid ignited.
>The flames leapt from the windowsill to towels and bedding, filling
>the room with smoke that billowed outside and into the hallway. The
>student, 18-year-old Adam Gaffney of Vancouver, British
>Columbia,smashed a glass box containing a fire extinguisher and ran
>back into his room to put out the fire. He was treated for cuts and
>burns at Porter Hospital before being taken into police custody.
>Officers said they found marijuana, lab equipment and other drug
>paraphernalia inside Gaffney's room. "I'm sure the young man doesn't
>feel very lucky today, but he is luckier than he knows," DU
>spokesman Warren Smith said. "If someone else had been hurt or
>killed, . .  this would be a very different story." The fire
>appeared to be part of a trend in the metro area.
>Investigators have uncovered more than 80 clandestine labs in the Denver
>area in the past three months, and Wednesday's blaze is the third one linked
>to drug manufacturing in just two weeks. The other fires were at a home in
>Golden and an apartment in Arapahoe County.

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