At least 3 dead after explosion at LASD training facility
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"Preliminary information indicates deputies were moving an unexploded ordnance recently recovered from a bomb callout when the blast occurred, according to two law enforcement sources. The sources stressed that the investigation is ongoing."
At least 3 deputies killed in explosion at L.A. County sheriff’s training facility
At least three deputies were killed Friday in an explosion at the Sheriff's Department's Biscailuz Training Center in East Los Angeles.
www.latimes.com
Glad I’m not the only one that thinks like that.
Sorrows for the family of the 3 deceased. I'm not minimalizing that.
But I also have to add "specially trained personnel"...... ain't always the right way. Think of THAT when discussing firearms ownership, too.
But I also have to add "specially trained personnel"...... ain't always the right way. Think of THAT when discussing firearms ownership, too.
What part of this doesn't make any sense? They had it in the SUV? With the "Bomb Truck" next to it? It only blew out the rear window of the SUV but no other windows of the SUV and killed all 3? Why would they have moved ordnance in a standard vehicle if it was still "live"?"Preliminary information indicates deputies were moving an unexploded ordnance recently recovered from a bomb callout when the blast occurred, according to two law enforcement sources. The sources stressed that the investigation is ongoing."
At least 3 deputies killed in explosion at L.A. County sheriff’s training facility
At least three deputies were killed Friday in an explosion at the Sheriff's Department's Biscailuz Training Center in East Los Angeles.
19, 22, & 33 years experience. Something isn't being told.
Typical bomb truck's not armored, it's just a box truck that hauls gear. Unknown suspect packages get transported in the blast vessels that you see towed behind the truck but if the Deputies had identified whatever they were working with as a known piece of ordnance, their SOP could have allowed for transport from bunker to range in a cruiser.
The updated article mentions grenades. Grenades wound/kill primarily by projecting fragmentation at high velocity. One going off (and the one could have caused others to detonate sympathetically) in the close confines of a vehicle also introduces over-pressure to the mix. You're not going to look pretty coming out of there.
(The article also says "glass was scattered across the parking lot from the windows of an SUV cruiser that were blown out by the explosion," not a window.)
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The article I linked was updated with:
"A grenade was recovered at the Santa Monica apartment complex Thursday, a city police officer told The Times.
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."
Would be a major fuck-up if they were working under the assumption that it was inert but with 3 sets of eyes, I couldn't imagine how it'd be missed.
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