LAPD explodes fireworks in a residential neighborhood during a drought

[marmar]

The Los Angeles Police Department apparently aren't heeding warnings from the city's fire department. Wednesday, the LAPD confiscated fireworks from someone shooting them off ahead of the July 4 holiday.

It wasn't just a few fireworks, however, it was 5,000 pounds of illegal fireworks, both homemade and from China, police said.

"A bomb squad was called in to destroy some unstable devices while the boxes were loaded onto a tractor-trailer to be taken away for disposal," said KTLA.

Instead of taking them back to the police station and dunking them in water or holding onto them until California isn't under a dangerous drought with threats of fire, the LAPD exploded them in the residential neighborhood. ......(more)

https://www.rawstory.com/lapd-stupid-fireworks-drought-danger/

[WhiskeyGrinder]

1. PrOtEcTiNg AnD sErViNg

[Ferrets are Cool]

2. Sheesh.

[hlthe2b]

3. However, had they exploded in home outside the confines of protective disposal unit truck, do the

writers of this inflammatory article (pardon the pun) think the neighborhood would have been SAFER?

To me, this was a no-win situation and obviously, those illegal fireworks had far more explosive (high power explosive powder) than would occur in regulated fireworks. If you've seen the pictures these were warehouse quantity boxes of illegal fireworks.

No, I think the writer of that article has a real bias and it shows here and some seem to be buying it hook, line and sinker. An unfortunate occurrence, but I don't see that the actions were negligent.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

4. I mean, it's rawstory.

[Srkdqltr]

7. So, they set them off on purpose? In a neighborhood?

I doubt that they did. Negligent maybe. Stuff like this would have been taken to a more remote area and disposed of

[WhiskeyGrinder]

8. They did.

Stuff like this would have been taken to a more remote area and disposed of

It would have been...if people who gave a shit about the neighborhood had been tasked with disposing them.

[Srkdqltr]

9. Negligent then.

[Lochloosa]

5. What part of unstable devices did they not understand?

[hlthe2b]

6. WHO?

[Lochloosa]

13. The writer of the article

[hlthe2b]

14. Yup

[Phoenix61]

10. "Illegal fireworks explode during removal by LAPD" fixed it

[WhiskeyGrinder]

15. They detonated them on purpose.

[Hortensis]

11. An LAPD bomb squad transferred the improvised devices into the iron chamber of

a semitruck that’s meant to contain such explosive material, he said. Police detonated the devices at 7:37 p.m., believing that the vehicle would be able to contain the explosion, but there was a “total catastrophic failure of that containment vehicle,” Moore said. “Clearly protocols were followed and pursued, but something happened in that containment vehicle that should have not happened and we don’t know why,” the chief said. “We intend to find out why.” ...

On Wednesday morning, the LAPD received a call about fireworks being stored at a home in the neighborhood, he said.

At the residence’s patio, officers found several thousand pounds of commercial fireworks stacked 8 to 10 feet high in boxes, and bomb squad personnel spent the day moving them to be stored at another location.

Officers also found improvised explosive devices with simple fuses — about 40 the size of Coke cans and 200 smaller objects of similar construction — and conducted X-rays to determine their contents.

Less than 10 pounds of the devices were transferred into a semitruck, which Moore said was rated, with its outer containment shell, to handle 18 pounds. Officials established a 300-foot perimeter behind the vehicle and evacuated the north and south sides of 27th Street.

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-06-30/lapd-responds-to-explosion-at-scene-of-confiscation-of-illegal-fireworks

[Sneederbunk]

12. There were a couple of holes in that plan.