Police responded to a tip on Thursday that homemade and China-manufactured pyrotechnics were in a South Los Angeles home, the Associated Press reported. No details about the victims’ ages or genders were made available. Seven bystanders - including three who were seriously injured - were also taken to the hospital. All 10 were listed in fair condition and were taken to the hospital. Nine LAPD police officers and one officer with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives were treated for minor injuries, according to the Los Angeles Fire Department.
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Safety protocols were followed, Moore said, including using X-rays to examine the explosives and setting a safety perimeter around the truck carrying the materials.įootage of the explosion, caught on video and posted to social media, shows the truck exploding, blowing windows out of nearby buildings and tossing debris into the air and street. LAPD Public Information Officer William Cooper told The Washington Post Wednesday night the cause of the blast was not immediately known. He added: “This vessel should have been able to safely dispose of that material.” “Now this is a semi-truck, multi-ton, commercial-grade transport that within it has an iron chamber that is meant for this, where they house explosive material that can be safely detonated,” Moore said.
The department called in the bomb squad and special transport truck to move what Moore said was less than 10 pounds of unstable explosives. Officials then found the 40 explosive devices, Moore said, along with 200 similarly made smaller devices. The haul required three box trucks and a 53-foot trailer. Police had earlier removed between 3,000 and 5,000 pounds of illegal fireworks from Cejas’s home, Moore said. Arturo Cejas, 27, was arrested and charged on Wednesday, he added, after police got a tip about illegal fireworks at the man’s home. None of the injuries are life-threatening, Moore said. Moore said at a news conference late Wednesday night. The bomb squad was called to remove about 40 “Coca-Cola can-sized” improvised explosive devices, LAPD Chief Michel R. Chiu)Ī bomb truck with the Los Angeles Police Department exploded Wednesday night after officers removed explosives from a home where earlier in the day they had seized thousands of pounds of illegal fireworks, leaving nearby cars flipped onto their sides and sending more than a dozen people to the hospital.Īt least 17 people - 10 law enforcement personnel and seven community members - were hurt when a truck transporting the materials exploded about 6:40 p.m. A cache of illegal fireworks seized at a South Los Angeles home exploded, damaging nearby homes and cars and causing injuries, authorities said.
Those injured during the blast included six civilians, nine Los Angeles Police Officers, one ATF officer, and one patient who did not need to be taken to a hospital.The remains of an armored Los Angeles Police Department tractor-trailer are seen after fireworks exploded Wednesday evening, June 30, 2021. The force of the explosion was strong enough to bust out the windows of nearby businesses and push over a truck, turning the vehicle into little more than a ball of crushed metal. Something happened in that containment vehicle that should not have happened and we do not know why." The vehicle is basically an iron chamber designed to house explosive material that can be safely detonated.īut when the items were detonated shortly after 7:30 p.m., Chief Moore said there was a "total catastrophic failure of that containment vehicle."ĭuring a press conference, Moore explained, "This vessel should have been able to dispose of this material. Los Angeles Police Chief (LAPD) Michel Moore said it was Wednesday evening when officials were working to move at least 5,000 pounds of illegal fireworks into a bomb squad truck called a, "total containment vehicle." LOS ANGELES, California - According to CNN, when officials intentionally detonated a bomb inside of a vehicle created specifically for such detonations, something went wrong and the vehicle exploded in a Los Angeles neighborhood, injuring 17 people.
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