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Los Angeles bomb technicians miscalculated the weight of homemade fireworks in a containment chamber that resulted in a catastrophic explosion that injured 17 people in South Los Angeles, authorities said Monday.
Los Angeles Police Chief Michael Moore said five members of the bomb squad have been removed as a result of the explosion while they further investigate.
The explosion – which damaged dozens of homes, businesses and vehicles just days before July Fourth – was highly unusual, officials say, because such containment chambers are designed to withhold blasts. The bomb technicians overloaded it above the safety rating, however, even as authorities are investigating whether the detonation device had a defect.
According to Moore, a preliminary investigation by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms National Response Team found that the bomb squad significantly underestimated, based on a visual assessment, the weight of explosive material that was being loaded into the bomb squad truck for detonation.
The truck which has been used 41 previous times over the last decade, including for three detonations in June can safely contain the detonation of up to 15 pounds of explosive materials for repeated use or up to 25 pounds for one-time use that would render the truck out-of-service in the future. Bomb technicians followed department protocols to limit handling of the explosive devices and estimated the total amount of explosive material being loaded into the truck was 16.5 pounds, Moore said. The National Response Team s physical weighing of the materials found that the actual amount was 42 pounds.