12/21/2023 0 Comments Bombsquad truck explosion“It’s believed that the net explosive weight placed into the TCV exceeded its rated capacity.” “We believe a human error went to the miscalculation of the amount of material going into that vessel,” the police chief said. The bomb squad’s disposal truck, called the Total Containment Vessel (TCV), was designed to hold a maximum capacity of 25 pounds, Moore said. Man accused of storing 16 tons of fireworks at home, including devices that later blew up and injured 17 A cache of illegal fireworks seized at a South Los Angeles home exploded, damaging nearby homes and cars and causing injuries, authorities said. The remains of an armored Los Angeles Police Department tractor-trailer are seen after fireworks exploded Wednesday evening, June 30, 2021. Some of the fireworks were found with “leaking material,” causing officers on site to deem them too dangerous to transport and prompting them to detonate them on the scene.īomb technicians estimated the weight of the explosives to be about 16.5 pounds, but when the ATF National Response Team conducted an investigation following the blast, their total net explosive weight was just over 42 pounds, according to Moore. The “catastrophic” fireworks explosion that injured 17 people last month in a South Los Angeles neighborhood was caused by “human error” after bomb technicians miscalculated the weight of the fireworks, Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) Chief Michel Moore said in a news conference Monday.Īhead of the July Fourth holiday, the LAPD bomb squad responded to the 700 block of East 27th Street after receiving an anonymous tip that a resident was storing illegal fireworks in their backyard.Īccording to Moore, more than 32,000 pounds of illegal fireworks were found in the resident’s backyard.
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