60 Firefighters Rush to Pot Growers' House Fire

An early morning blaze at a pot-grower's house hotboxed an entire block in the Bronx today. One dazed neighbor tells the Post, "It was like the house was a giant weed farm. I thought it was a fog, there was so much smoke." The blaze raged through a two-story home on Hone Avenue in Allerton around 1 a.m., and in addition to lights used for growing plants indoors, investigators found a cache of guns. No arrests were made, but an NYPD officer was seen hauling five garbage bags filled with pot plants from the house. It ultimately took some sixty firefighters to cash the well-packed blaze; now investigators just need to scrape the house for resin.

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By John Del Signore in News on January 13, 2010 2:20 PM

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newport27

SIXTY firefighters rushing to an incident like this.. so typical of the morons that work in FDNY and NYPD

chlyn

"the blaze" hehehe-*cough*-hehe

calcetines

a shame, really

Thelonius Funk

Your pot posts are entertaining JDS

janelle

heh. this happened in an episode of rescue me (season 3 episode 9).

Wza

Code Green!

evbo

Holy crap -- this post cracked me up!

AYCE

In unrelated news, all bodegas in an entire Bronx neighborhood have suddenly sold out of Cheetos, Twinkies and Polly-O string cheese.

Pete

Did anyone investigate the possibility that it was the owners of said bodegas that set the fire?

ProcedureTurn

Awesome!!

MT

Best-written post of the week! I laughed out loud at it.

Guest

60 firefighters? Did all of them really need to go or did they just want to be near the fumes?

Oh, and Party at that cop's house!!!

Guest

OMG jesus fucking christ!!!

what a waste...

Guest

noo joisey! here i cum!

robingee

right? Legalize it! California did and they are gonna make a lot of money!

Doctor Memory

California has not legalized pot. There is a ballot initiative that will go up for a vote in the next elections that would, if passed, legalize marijuana on the state level. However, it is unlikely to pass, and possession will still be illegal at the federal level, which would make for an interesting clusterfuck.