Posted on 07/19/2025 12:28:07 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Authorities investigating the deadly blast at a Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department training facility are looking into connections to some explosives collected in Santa Monica.
Three deputies were killed Friday in an explosion at the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department’s Biscailuz Center Training Academy in East L.A. while handling explosive materials.
No cause for the blast has been determined. But the probe brought investigators Friday to an apartment complex in the 800 block of Bay Street in Santa Monica in connection with the explosion, according to department spokesperson Nicole Nishida. The three deputies killed in the blast responded to a call to assist the Santa Monica Police Department at the complex on Thursday.
A grenade was recovered at the Santa Monica apartment complex Thursday, a city police officer told The Times. Sources who were not authorized to speak publicly told The Times that investigators are trying to determine if the explosives were the ones that caused the blast.
Michael Kellman, who lives in the building, told The Times that a fellow tenant called the police Thursday after discovering a bag of grenades tucked away in her storage unit.
She has been living in the building for several years and believes the bag was left behind by the former occupant, he said. Authorities returned to her unit Friday to scour the apartment for any remaining explosives.
The Santa Monica Police Department evacuated residents from the Bay Street apartment building Friday afternoon, while authorities continue to search the location for any additional explosive material, Nishida said. The FBI and Los Angeles Police Department’s bomb squad are assisting with the investigation. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives is expected to lead a federal probe into the cause of the explosion.
Nancy, who lives on Bay Street and chose not to provide a...
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A Bag FULL.
"No cause for the blast has been determined." Huh?
Such as why were they carrying explosives?
What were the “training” session purposes and details?
Carry explosives around in a car and see what happens?
RE: A grenade was recovered at the Santa Monica apartment complex Thursday.
Happens to all of us who live in apartment complexes.
Probably just a Dem on the way to a rally against Israel and ICE who forgot it at home.
Why would you take a bunch of explosives back to a training facility, and not to a specified area, away from population where they could be safely detonated? Makes no sense to me.
Allegedly they were attempting to render the device safe when it detonated. The device was thought to be inert.
And that in itself does not make much sense, but that’s what is being reported. Could be bs, I dunno.
Hmmm...
Thought that these explosive outfits had those heavy trucks designed for the transportation of explosive materials...
An explosion inside one of those trucks would probably be safely contained...
What make and model car was stupidly used to transport these grenades...
The presidential limousine might have been the only approriate "car" to use...
Reminds me of the time in 1954 when dad found a stick of dynamite in our newly rented house in Saguache Colorado. He took us out into the country and showed us how he destroyed dynamite in the Army Engineers by slicing the dynamite like a carrot and crumbling the pieces and scattering them. What if that stick had gone off with all of us in the car. I would not be writing this now.
I have no first-hand experience, but I have heard that the nitroglycerine in dynamite will sweat out of the diatomaceous earth and pool at the bottom of the case over time, which is why you are supposed to turn the cases over periodically. The pooled nitroglycerine is extremely unstable.
I’ve seen boxes of dynamite sweating nitro. The person who had it didn’t have a clue.
a Volkswagen would work, check out the commercial
old sticks of dynamite sweat nitro glycerine
When I was in college there was an incident in the organic chemistry lab. A student was doing a nitration synthesis when he noticed some yellow liquid floating in his flask. He asked the professor what it was. The professor asked the student what he had used to lubricate the fittings on the flask. The student said “glycerin”. The professor said that the yellow liquid was probably nitroglycerin. They evacuated the entire wing of the building while the professor carefully dismantled the apparatus and safely disposed of the nitroglycerin. This was in the mid “60s. Today, the bomb squad would probably be called.
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