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5,000 pounds of illegal fireworks explodes in Los Angeles, injures 17 people, including 9 police
National Post / Reuters ^ | July 1, 2021 | Kanishka Singh and Steve Gorman

Posted on 07/01/2021 10:50:52 AM PDT by canuck_conservative

At least nine Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) officers and one agent of the U.S. Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) were among those hurt, all suffering minor injuries, the city fire department said in a statement...

The collection of more than 5,000 pounds of illegal fireworks was seized in a pre-July 4 holiday sweep. The accident occurred as police bomb squad officers were in the process of confiscating the cache in a South Los Angeles neighborhood, the LAPD said on Twitter...

“Some of the fireworks were being stored in our bomb squad trailer as a precautionary measure. Unknown at this time what caused the explosion,” the LAPD said on Twitter.

Los Angeles City News Service (CNS), ABC News and television station KCAL-TV reported that the blast occurred when police attempted to safely detonate a portion of the explosives...

Video footage carried on KCAL-TV showed a bomb squad tractor-trailer truck blown apart in a fireball that overturned a nearby parked car and set off alarms in the neighborhood.

The explosion also damaged a number of buildings and scattered debris on the streets, local media outlets reported...

(Excerpt) Read more at nationalpost.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: andagain; batfe; explosion; fireworks; lapd; localnews
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Booby trap?

Or more Government experts at work?

1 posted on 07/01/2021 10:50:52 AM PDT by canuck_conservative
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To: canuck_conservative

Likely smuggled from Mehico


2 posted on 07/01/2021 10:54:31 AM PDT by gr8eman (A man who only talks business is a failure in all aspects of life- Camino Del Rio)
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To: canuck_conservative

nope what i heard was 5000 was seized and 10 to 20pounds of highly suspect stuff went up


3 posted on 07/01/2021 10:59:12 AM PDT by al baby (Hi Mom Hi Dad)
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To: canuck_conservative

The cops were detonating them and underestimated the force of the explosion.


4 posted on 07/01/2021 11:01:01 AM PDT by Little Ray (Corporations don't pay taxes. They collect them.)
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To: al baby

Not that button!


5 posted on 07/01/2021 11:01:37 AM PDT by DownInFlames (G)
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To: DownInFlames

The red wire! No, the green wire!


6 posted on 07/01/2021 11:03:08 AM PDT by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: canuck_conservative

Saw the video.

Biggie boom.


7 posted on 07/01/2021 11:05:58 AM PDT by freedumb2003 (The left does not want dialogue; it wants compliance.)
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To: canuck_conservative

The last thing they remember hearing was Billy Bob saying “Hold my beer and watch this”.


8 posted on 07/01/2021 11:08:56 AM PDT by ImJustAnotherOkie (All I know is The I read in the papers.)
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To: canuck_conservative

bookmark


9 posted on 07/01/2021 11:09:53 AM PDT by GOP Poet (Super cool you can change your tag line EVERYTIME you post!! :D. (Small things make me happy))
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This is really important. I fell so much better knowing that the LAPD is going after illegal fireworks. /s

MS-13 is happy too.


10 posted on 07/01/2021 11:11:11 AM PDT by Seruzawa (The political Left is the Garden of Eden of Incompetence - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: Little Ray
The cops were detonating them and underestimated the force of the explosion.

Something important like that should have been closely supervised by Newson and the LA Mayor and council. Up close and personal.

My suspect: Cop who secretly got money for a TV cop show explosion scene to look more authentic. Watch for the cop in the Lamborghini tomorrow morning.

11 posted on 07/01/2021 11:12:57 AM PDT by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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To: canuck_conservative

12 posted on 07/01/2021 11:13:31 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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It will be interesting to know what they thought it was and what it actually was.


13 posted on 07/01/2021 11:14:12 AM PDT by Dennis M.
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To: canuck_conservative

They couldn’t have just taken a firehose to them?


14 posted on 07/01/2021 11:15:39 AM PDT by circlecity
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To: canuck_conservative

No fireworks are illegal! /s (isn’t that how they ducked “illegal” immigrants?


15 posted on 07/01/2021 11:19:18 AM PDT by Honest Nigerian
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"My suspect: Cop who secretly got money for a TV cop show explosion scene to look more authentic."

My suspect: Cop whose relatives own a local replacement windows business.
16 posted on 07/01/2021 11:19:25 AM PDT by Izzatso
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My suspect: Cop whose relatives own a local replacement windows business.

LOL

It "panes" me to say yours was funnier.

17 posted on 07/01/2021 11:23:07 AM PDT by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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To: Little Ray
They intentionally detonated them in a sealed container (van)? That makes no sense.

I mean, yes, it's in the article. But it makes no sense. They can't fully contain such an explosion. There has to be a suitable vent somewhere.

18 posted on 07/01/2021 11:27:03 AM PDT by LouAvul (Lying headlines from fake news articles written by pimps masquerading as journalists.)
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Forget it Jake. It’s California.
Remember we’re talking about a state that replaced Moonbeam Brown with Noisome Newsome. Common sense is pretty rare.


19 posted on 07/01/2021 11:30:05 AM PDT by Little Ray (Corporations don't pay taxes. They collect them.)
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To: canuck_conservative

This is the smoking area...isn’t it?


20 posted on 07/01/2021 11:37:36 AM PDT by Eagles6 (Welcome to the Matrix circa 1984.)
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