Update: No Ricin Was Found Present - Denver HAZMAT Responds To Multiple Ricin Locations

Update – According to local Denver news outlet reports, the emergency teams investigating the two reports of possible Ricin manufacturing did not find anything, and the HAZMAT teams have now cleared both scenes.

Here in Denver’s Adams County, authorities have descended on two properties because of reports Ricin was allegedly being manufactured.

This aerial view shows hazardous materials crews dressed in yellow, protective suits and the placement of tents for their workspace.

The Ricin poison can be administered in serveral ways; inhaled, injected or ingested. After an individual is exposed, symptoms emerge only after a variable delay, which can be between a few hours to a full day. There is no antidote.

This video lets you see more of the first responder’s activities, and the very serious situation they are investigating. Ricin is a deadly toxin, which in it’s purified powder formis very small, with each grain similar in size to table salt, and it only takes a few of these small Ricin grains to kill an adult human.

As 7 News Denver reports.

ADAMS COUNTY, Colo. – There have been several reports of ricin being manufactured at two different addresses in Adams County have authorities looking into the matter. 

“Sergeant Aaron Pataluna, of the Adams County Sheriff’s Office, told 7NEWS that authorities received a report that ricin — a deadly poison — was being manufactured at the two addresses. One is on the 5600 block of Federal Boulevard; the other is at the 5400 block of Sheridan Boulevard in Arvada.” 

AIRTRACKER7 flew over the locations and transmitted images of hazardous materials crews dressed in yellow, protective suits and tents being prepared for their workspace.