'I have a bad feeling.' LAPD bomb tech's warnings were ignored before catastrophic fireworks explosion in South Los Angeles neighborhood, report says
SOUTH LOS ANGELES -- A senior Los Angeles bomb technician raised serious concerns about overloading a containment chamber with homemade fireworks last year before the detonation caused a catastrophic explosion, injuring 27 people and rocking a neighborhood, according to an inspector general's report released Friday.
Multiple times,"Bomb Technician C" told his squad about his worries ahead of the detonation."I said, 'uh, this is too much to do one shot, we're gonna break them up, right?'" he recalled saying to his colleagues."I have a bad feeling ... this is not good ... this is too big."The bomb technicians made major miscalculations, federal investigators found, and loaded the containment chamber above the equipment's safety rating. The U.S.
The inspector general's 48-page report was released late Friday as part of the agenda for an upcoming police commission meeting. The report disclosed the technician's ignored warnings for the first time.
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