Oops. The Los Angeles Bomb Squad accidentally blew up their own truck Wednesday night and even captured the attention grabbing explosion on video. One would think that specially trained professionals would know what to expect when you “put a destructive device inside a closed container where it’s pressurized” but then again, California is big on liberal common core education. Ten officers and seven civilians were injured. The ATF is on scene as of Thursday and investigating.
Uncontrolled explosion
According to the people who are supposed to be in charge of the Los Angeles Police Department, what was intended as a totally “safe operation to destroy a cache of illegal fireworks” on Wednesday, June 30, inadvertently started Independence month off with a blast.
One described by officials as a “total, catastrophic failure” of a Los Angeles police bomb squad vehicle.” The massive explosion ripped through a South Los Angeles neighborhood, “injuring 17 people, including 10 law enforcement officers.”
The bomb squad’s special truck was totally destroyed in the explosion after the bomb squad basically made it into one huge rolling IED. They claim they didn’t forget all their years of training, they meant to do it this way. According to LAPD Lt. Raul Jovel, “they followed all the protocols in place. It was not really one of these explosions that was unplanned. This was planned.”
The only thing they missed was the fact that their tricked out truck was a perfect container for one heck of a pipe bomb. Residents “felt the blast from inside a building more than a quarter-mile away.” One citizen was “asleep when I felt like the whole bed was shaking. It felt like a really hard earthquake. It sounded huge.”
“You put a destructive device inside a closed container where it’s pressurized, when it blows up, that is a big punch,” Jovel explains. “If some of these devices were to explode in the open, the impact would be a lot less because the blast would really go in all directions.”
“Hey yeah! We should have thought of that…” The explosion was fueled by “at least 5,000 pounds of illegal fireworks” seized from a home Wednesday night. They seem to be part of an Antifa® brand stockpile of “illegal commercial-grade fireworks” to be used in their insurrection activities.
Several homes damaged
As reported by local outlets, “several” of the area’s homes were damaged in the explosion and city engineers, hopefully ones who know math, are “evaluating them to determine if they were structurally sound.” Ten of the injured were LAPD officers. All have been listed in “fair condition with minor injuries.”
An ATF officer is also listed in fair condition and six civilians were wounded. “three with moderate injuries and three with minor injuries. One patient did not need to be transported.”
In order to produce the unexpected but planned explosion, the LAPD Bomb Squad packed up “40 coke-can-sized improvised explosive devices with fuses and 200 additional smaller devices with similar construction” into a “total containment vehicle” with an iron chamber, which is designed to house explosive material that can be safely detonated.”
Basically, they made a bomb out of it. “Homes, cars and a laundromat had windows shattered and one vehicle had its side plowed in and was knocked over by the force of the blast.”
LAPD admits that when the items were detonated there was a “total catastrophic failure of that containment vehicle.” In other words, “one heck of an explosion.” They should have known better.
“Clearly protocols were followed and pursued, but something happened in that containment vehicle that should have not happened and we don’t know why, but we intend to find out why.” They’ve been sniffing too much hand sanitizer.
