Envy Apartment

Expect the worst and be ready. After an intoxicating stench of acetone prevailed for four days, Houston (Texas) fire crews were called to the Summer Vale apartment complex to uncover an apparent synthetic drug lab , hidden in plain sight. No one was home inside the apartment-turned- alleged drug mill . Instead, empty canisters of chemicals, little packets labeled “potpourri bubble gum” and breathing masks remained . “They had a clandestine drug lab up there,” Senior Capt. Dwayne Jernigan, of Houston Fire Department , said early Friday. “They were making Kush. [They] had all the equipment for it.” Most people paid no attention to the stench, with some saying they thought maintenance was re-doing an apartment. When the smell didn’t go away, a resident felt light -headed and queasy, prompting a call to 911. Families in 12 units were ordered to vacate their apartments, but some have since been allowed to return.