HAZMAT Weed Bust | National Geographic

in Falfurrias Texas a hazmat team has
been lowered into a tanker truck
carrying thousands of pounds of toxic
material the powder lag material or
attractant is bait Rex sodium it’s a
solid it’s heavy we have to vacuum this
solid out of the tanker truck otherwise
there’s no way to reach the narcotics
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beright can severely damage the
respiratory system we have the oxygen
breathing apparatus that we install we
go ahead and dawn on it’s a lot of
practice and work steps involved prior
to entering a confined space the team
takes shifts working inside and outside
the tanker even agents working the
exterior operating the vacuum must be
protected each time we go into space we
wanted to in between breaks we monitor
air periodically about 20 minutes 30
minutes
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after several excruciating hours the
hazmat team finally reaches the bundles
beneath the bear
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now they begin removing them as quickly
as possible they’ve already spent hours
exposed to the bear right
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probably the worst one we’ve been on
wears called out we’ve been on it’s very
strenuous it’s hard breathing too much
does
in all 212 bundles are pulled from the
truck now gets a lot of big logs we are
known for getting big load such as this
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a test confirms it’s marijuana