Meth residue drives students out of Myrtle Street home
Three Western Washington University students were left without a home Nov. 4 after they discovered the house they were renting was contaminated by methamphetamine.
Renting the old, tan, paint-chipped two-story house on East Myrtle Street may have been easy, but living in it was not as simple, the three women said. After the women noticed that they were experiencing health issues such as upper respiratory problems and fogginess while in the house, they began to worry, Western student Francesca Weikert, one of the residents of the home, said.
Western sophomores Nikki Gemmell, Paige Stevenson and Weikert discovered their house had been home to a methamphetamine user.