Source: NC POLICY WATCH, 5/7/20

A few hours before dawn one March morning in 2013, Johnathan Covington woke to find his young daughter on the couch, crying. The night prior, an acrid smell had begun infiltrating the family home. Covington’s daughter said her eyes hurt and she couldn’t sleep.  Now that the odor was even stronger, Covington thought plastic wires were burning inside the walls. He roused his wife and their two children — including an infant — and rushed them outside. In the bracing chill of late winter, the odor was worse. To escape, the Covingtons got inside their car and called the Duplin County fire department.

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