COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The Ohio Department of Health says a fire at a nursing home apparently was caused by a mobile meth lab.
A spokeswoman says officials are looking into the role that visitors to the home may have played. They did not give an exact description of the lab, but say that generally a mobile lab consists of a small container that can be carried in a backpack and that has all the ingredients to make methamphetamine.
Five people were hospitalized after the fire Sunday in a resident’s room at Park Haven Home in Ashtabula, east of Cleveland. One of them, 31-year-old Shaun Warrens of Ashtabula, died Monday. Police say Warrens was not a resident or employee.
Police say charges are expected against two men who were burned.
