Two men are behind bars after officials in Bowling Green bust a meth lab.

At around 9:15 Monday morning, The Bowling Green/Warren County Drug Task Force, Kentucky State Police, and Bowling Green Police busted a working meth lab at America's Best Value Inn on Cumberland Trace.

Two men were found in the hotel room, one attempted to flee out a window but both were captured and arrested.

Thirty-nine-year-old James Seth Brown and 29-year-old Steven Fred Burns, both of Bowling Green, are being decontaminated after being accused of contaminating the streets of South Central Kentucky with methamphetamine.

"The detectives have to suit up in Ti vex suits to go into that hazardous environment and bring the meth lab chemicals out so they can safely clean that room," says Tommy Loving, Director of the Bowling Green Warren County Drug Task Force.

Loving says Brown is charged with manufacturing meth, tampering with evidence, possession of a controlled substance and drug paraphernalia, and wanton endangerment.

Burns is charged with manufacturing meth and wanton endangerment.

"These people put everyone in the hotel in danger of an explosion of fire," says Loving.

Fortunately that didn't happen Monday and everyone made it out of the hotel safely, but Loving says this isn't over and the fight against meth continues.

Statewide the number of meth labs have increased by 47% from last year and Warren County is no different.

He says the only way to decontaminate Kentucky of meth labs is to make obtaining pseudofederine, the main ingredient needed to make meth, harder to get.

"We believe making Pseudofederine a scheduled drug or a prescription drug is probably the only way to stop this. They did take that measure in Oregon in 2006 and went from about 500 meth labs a year down to 21," says Loving.

Loving says The Task Force will have to notify the Health Department and the hotel's management of the level of contaminants found and he says because of the revised meth laws from last year the room will have to be decontaminated before it can be rented again.