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Back| 24 September, 2007 | middlegafama.org |
Macon.com (two-part story)
By: Liz Fabian
Two people burned during an apparent explosion Sunday morning in a Crawford County methamphetamine lab are in critical condition at the Joseph M. Still Burn Center in Augusta.
Shay Edison, 37, of 199 Marshall Mill Road, and Thomas Wayne Robertson, 44, of Quail Run in Roberta, were transferred from The Medical Center of Central Georgia, said Beth Frits, media relations coordinator for the burn center.
Frits could not disclose the nature of the injuries due to federal privacy laws, she said.
Edison and Robertson were found with serious injuries at a camper fire shortly before 6:30 a.m. Sunday at 77 Marshall Mill Road in Crawford County.
Around the burned-out camper deputies discovered the remnants of a methamphetamine lab that apparently exploded and caused a flashover fire that burned Edison and Robertson, Crawford County Sheriff Kerry Dunaway said.
Dunaway said investigators will examine evidence gathered at the scene before charges could be filed.
By: Linda S. Morris
A suspected methamphetamine lab at a Crawford County house exploded, causing a fire, said a dispatcher from the Crawford County Sheriff's Office.
A fire at a house on Marshall Mill Road was reported by a passer-by about 6:27 a.m. Sunday, the dispatcher said.
Two men were seriously burned in the fire and were taken to The Medical Center of Central Georgia, he said. The men's names could not be released Sunday evening, he said.
"We recovered a meth lab from that address," the dispatcher said. "We believe that (the fire) was started from making the meth."
Last week, a stolen car stopped by the Crawford County Sheriff's Office contained a meth lab inside. It was the 10th meth lab seized by Crawford County deputies during the past four months.
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