Overview
- Federal agents from the FBI’s Evidence Response Team and Hazardous Evidence Response Team are processing a residence in a gated Irvine community at the request of the Orange County Fire Authority.
- Police first responded Monday after a landlord’s call, finding what officers described as a homemade science lab with signs of a fire inside the home near Cartwheel and Iluna.
- OCFA hazmat personnel evaluated chemicals and written materials that raised concerns before the case was turned over to federal investigators.
- An anonymous source told CBS LA there were possible indications of chemical nerve agents, a claim authorities have not confirmed.
- No arrests, injuries, or evacuation orders have been reported, and neighbors observed National Guard personnel from a Weapons of Mass Destruction Civil Support Team at the scene.