Like possessing drug-making equipment. Friday morning, six members of the Washington State Patrol's Statewide Incidence Response Team looked as if they were going to take a ride on a space shuttle, donning moon suits and oxygen tanks outside the Richland police station. He's got everything he needs. The lab team is one of only five such squads in the state trained to handle the toxic materials. Two are in King County, and two are in Pierce County, leaving the Gasseling's team to deal with incidents in the state's 37 other counties.
Authorities have to wait for the team to show up before they touch anything.
That's what their training is in. Larson's car hardly had been touched while police waited for Gasseling's crew. A pack of Marlboros still sat on the driver's seat. A large cooler, which filled the back seat, was pulled out with most of the equipment. Sitting in the shredded passenger seat was a propane tank filled with ammonia.