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default_laura t1_iz7nacc wrote

OP, please don’t assume this is your neighbors. This could be anything; it could be coming from in your house, somewhere else on your street, or a major leak somewhere in your neighborhood. The Department of Health has an ecology section that investigates weird odors and that is really who should be coming out to help you. Call 311 like yesterday and let them know what’s up.

Since you have a VOC detector, even the cheapest models give a readout and keep a datalog. When they come out, show them what you have. Good luck.

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EthanSayfo t1_iz7muhb wrote

Can you make a timestamped video of the VOC detector showing positive readings that appear to be sketchy? I would create a chain of evidence/information, as top commenter suggested.

This should be something you can do without causing immediate friction with and for your fam, right?

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Animanialmanac t1_iz7m6y8 wrote

Curtis Bay is not too far from where I live, we have a similar house here. The number of drug houses in this area really increased in the last two or three years. In my area it seems someone with ill intentions moves in as soon as a family moves out, and the new residents often sell drugs, offer drugs to passers by, create odd smells. I’ve never seen anything like it in all my years in the city.

I suggest you install smoke and carbon monoxide detectors. The squatters in the house near me did something to the hot water heater, I imagine to get hot water without paying the gas bill. The house immediately next door to them had problems with carbon monoxide and then the fire. The carbon monoxide gave the man, the one living immediately nextdoor, headaches. I remember he showed dysphasia last year, I was there when the police were dismissive to him because of his speech patterns. Carbon monoxide poisoning can alter your ability to form phrases and make it hard to make yourself understood. It’s a shame all of us recognized that but the police were indifferent. Please get a carbon monoxide detector just in case. Your story sounds so much like the beginning of the house on Saint Benedict Street near me. I wish you well, please keep writing updates. Stay safe.

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sassygirl101 t1_iz7cxiq wrote

Thank you OP and don’t get me wrong, I am very very sorry you are going thru this. I wish I had better advice, but I will agree with one poster here. I think you should call the Mayors office EVERY week and tell them you think they are cooking meth and the BCP and FD are not working together at all. I think they will rattle some cages. This must be so frightening to live next to!

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sassygirl101 t1_iz7bl96 wrote

I still don’t understand why OP can’t give a VICINITY…. Again not your address, but people need to know ABOUT where is this you could say, north of Eastpoint Mall …. Locust Point,,, I mean something…

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