Incensed residents of the predominantly Latino neighborhood where the explosion occurred have criticized LAPD, saying police would not have done the same procedure in a wealthier area. That day’s heat did prompt officers to take precautions to keep the fireworks from igniting, using fans to try to cool them. The chief said it was possible that the heat that day and stress from handling so many explosives could have contributed to LAPD officers making mistakes. Recreational fireworks of any kind are not allowed in Los Angeles. Ceja was arrested for transporting the explosives without a license. The LAPD also said, initially, that authorities discovered 5,000 pounds of fireworks in Arturo Ceja III’s backyard, but ATF agents would come out and say the amount was actually 32,000 pounds of fireworks and related explosives most of the explosives were deemed safe enough to cart away. The day after the explosion, the chief said less than 10 pounds of explosives had been placed in the truck. The total 42 pounds ATF determined were placed inside the containment vessel far exceeded its capacity of 25 pounds of explosive weight. “There was a compounding effect,” Moore said of the apparent small errors that magnified into a terrifying explosion that rocked the $1 million-plus bomb truck, severely damaging it, and apparently sent the vehicle’s 500-pound lid sailing for four blocks. When the LAPD technicians placed them inside the blast chamber, the detonation was therefore vastly more powerful than they expected.
The error was even greater for the larger, soda-can shaped devices – the LAPD found they contained 1.37 ounces of explosives, but the ATF determined they contained 5 ounces. The ATF found they were actually 1.5 ounces each. In the smaller M80s, LAPD’s technicians estimated them at half an ounce of explosive weight. The ATF analysts did – weighing samples that were left over after the explosion and coming up with completely different results. The LAPD technicians did not use a scale to weigh the powder found in the devices. To estimate how much explosive power the devices had, the LAPD officers visually inspected them, passed them through an X-ray and used a bomb-detecting robot to analyze them. The technicians decided then that they could not safely transport them and opted to detonate the material inside the blast chamber on site. When bomb technicians found those improvised explosives, they discovered some of them were leaking. “Clearly, this failure has identified some shortfalls.” “Our bomb squad is known throughout the world,” Moore said. If that was the case, he said, those officers should be “protected” for just following department standards. He said if officers at the scene failed to follow LAPD rules for detonating explosives in a neighborhood, they would face discipline.īut he noted that the LAPD was also investigating whether it’s own rules were faulty and may have led to the devastating blast. LAPD Chief Michel Moore detailed the apparent failures of the bomb squad outside the department’s headquarters on Monday, July 19, saying the incident was still under internal investigation and subject to a Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives review. In fact, on that June 30 day, they may have placed 42 pounds of explosives inside – far beyond the maximum capacity of the vehicle’s blast chamber, according to the federal experts who are investigating the explosion that injured 17 people and shattered nearby buildings. (Photo by Brittany Murray, Press-Telegram/SCNG) Chief Moore was joined by ATF officials at headquarters in Los Angeles on Monday, July 19, 2021.
SQADD INSIDE THE OFFICE UPDATE
LAPD Chief Michel Moore gives an update into the June 30 fireworks blast that sent 17 neighbors and first responders to the hospital and destroyed an LAPD bomb squad truck. The Los Angeles Police Department’s bomb squad apparently thought it was putting 16.5 pounds of explosive material, confiscated during a raid for illegal fireworks at a home in South L.A., inside a containment truck to safely detonate.
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