Police are looking for the attacker responsible for vandalizing Kensington homes by spraying fire extinguisher into residents' open windows.
Mia Mogavero lives in one of the many homes sprayed by the fire extinguisher last week. She was doing homework at her kitchen table Thursday night with the door open when someone walked up to her doorway.
Mogavero tells NBC 7 the person sprayed for a couple of seconds, filling her living room area with retardant.
She took a picture and sent it to her friend.
"My friend looked at the picture and was like, 'oh your house is gray, I didn’t know you had gray floors,' and I said, 'I don’t, I have wood floors,'" Mogavero said.
At the time, she was watching her friend's dog for the night.
When the suspect started spraying into her home, she grabbed the dog and locked it in the kitchen because she did not know if the spray was a poisonous chemical.
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"I’m lucky that I have no damage, I’m lucky nothing was stolen, I’m lucky I was able to not get hurt, nothing was poisonous -- like, he didn’t put chemicals in there," she said.
Her neighbor, Cristyn Chandler, also recalls the night.
“I was just sitting on my couch and I heard this loud noise," she said.
Chandler got up to check on her neighbor as soon as she heard the fire alarms going off next door.
"It’s just all white and I look at the floor and it’s completely white. So my brain's trying to rationalize it, and I’m like did she put sand on the floor for the dog?" Chandler said.
Karen Trudelle, another Kensington victim, woke up in the middle of the night to use her bathroom and found it covered in retardant.
“I went to go use the bathroom and I was like 'wait a minute, what is this?'" she said.
Trudelle tells NBC 7 the person sprayed in through her bathroom window.
"It was just open to get air," Trudelle said. "We always leave it open, it’s hot. You know, we're in a small apartment, we need air."
Trudelle said she had to buy new toothbrushes, floor mats, makeup and other toiletries. She also called in a plumber because the drains are backed up with the remnants.
After the incident, she called 911 immediately.
“They told me they thought it was a fire extinguisher, and the next day I get home from work and the neighbors tell me, ‘oh there’s a fire extinguisher under the stairs,'" Trudelle said.
Authorities told NBC 7 the incident is under investigation.
