Seems like a job for a forensic explosive metallurgist
Big boom in LA.
WATCH: Sky9 was overhead when police attempted to detonate a stash of illegal fireworks that ended in an explosion in the 700 block of East 27th Street in South L.A. https://t.co/KpWiAEoyqv pic.twitter.com/UbIXLDoZjh
— KCAL News (@kcalnews) July 1, 2021
17 Injured After Planned Detonation Of Seized Illegal Fireworks Ends In Explosion
Federal agents with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives Thursday began surveying the damage and reconstructing what led to a Wednesday evening explosion in South Los Angeles that injured 17 people.
“I can’t speak for the entire nation, but I’ve never seen that before,” Ginger Colbrun, an ATF special agent, said. “And I’ve been working for ATF for over a decade.”
The explosion of a Los Angeles Police Department truck, caused after a planned police detonation of seized illegal fireworks, happened at about 7:40 p.m. at East 27th and San Pedro streets.
The explosion occurred after the LAPD had seized over 5,000 pounds of illegal fireworks from a nearby home. A 27-year-old man was also arrested.
Ten pounds of the illegal fireworks were placed in a specialized armored truck designed for controlled detonations
Moore alleged that the officers followed the necessary protocols, but “something happened in that containment vehicle that should not have happened, and we don’t know why, but we intend to find out why.” The truck is capable of handling up to 15 pounds of IEDs. There were 10 pounds at the time of the explosion.
The truck was rated at 15 lbs of explosives but 10 lbs blew it up, injured 17 people. and broke windows for blocks.
That seems like a major failure.
They didn’t say 15 lbs of what but the standard is lbs of TNT.
This is something that will need to be investigated.
A big metal container that was supposed to contain a quantity of explosives but failed catastrophically at less than that quantity.
This seem like a job for a forensic explosive metallurgist.
I just so happen to know one.