Federal Agents Raid Company That Hauled MCHM For Freedom Industries, "Cleaned" Spill Site

ST. ALBANS, West Virginia - "It's biological warfare," said George Travis Bird, referring to a thick licorice smell in the air surrounding his home. Bird lives next door to Diversified Services in Kanawha County.

Diversified Services is the company that cleaned up the Freedom Industries spill site after the January 9 spill that left hundreds of thousands of people without potable water. They also hauled the crude MCHM for Freedom.

On Thursday, Federal agents raided the business. They were hauling out equipment, seizing it. "It just makes me feel better," one neighbor said. Neighbors who live around Diversified Services said they've smelled licorice in the air for months, even dating back to last summer. "All summer long we smelled it," a neighbor said. "They told us it was vegetable oil, used vegetable oil."

The business owner's attorney was on scene during the raid, but he declined to comment.

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