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Cleaning up contamination: What happens to Utah’s meth houses

Provo • A hazmat suit and respirator is what Jared Herbert typically wears to work. If passersby ask what he is working on, he tells them he’s just cleaning a house. Or taking care of a residential chemical contamination.

He never gives the real reason why his cleaning crew travels in unmarked vans to rip out carpet, scrub air ducts or load furniture into a dumpster.

"We keep it as discreet as we can," he explained. "You want to know that someone has meth in your neighborhood, but you also don't want to know, you know?