No, I don’t need an answer fast, this is just morbid curiosity.
In my apartment complex, a man held police at bay for several hours from Sunday night into Monday morning. After hours of negotiation, the police fired tear gas canisters through the windows into the townhouse, only to discover that the man had died of a self-inflicted shotgun wound. For the last few days, plywood has been over the windows and door frame, but I was surprised to drive by today and see the plywood gone, a window installer’s truck in the lot, and obvious signs of refurbishment going on. Man, the new complex management is on top of things.
The folks I saw working on the apartment were working in shirtsleeves and without masks or goggles, which kind of surprised me…
How do laborers deal with enclosed spaces in which tear gas has been deployed? It’s bad enough having to remove bloody carpet, patch/replace bullet-riddled drywall, etc., but tear gas seems to present a unique problem; even if it’s ventilated, wouldn’t it be in the carpeting, vents, and furniture? Or does it become benign that quickly?
(The apartment has been the scene of several beer bottle/flower/stuffed animal shrines and impromptu drunken reveries since the incident, so I imagine that the folks here that I could ask are rather tired of morbid curiosity, and I don’t want to bug them.)