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Charles Garland, director and manager of Garland Bros. Funeral Home on West Castle St. in Syracuse wears and holds protective equipment used when handling embalming fluid in his job. Syracuse is seeing an increase in street use (smoking) of embalming fluid that has played a role in at least one murder and a number of assaults. Mike Greenlar / The Post Standard.