Seconds before things went haywire, officers on the ground quickly backed away from the squad trailer.
In addition to the injuries, the explosion wrecked nearby cars and damaged homes. One person was arrested, according to CBSLA and the LAPD. The enormous blast came after authorities confiscated over 5,000 pounds of illegal fireworks from a South Los Angeles home. Over a dozen people were hurt when an LAPD bomb squad truck was blown to smithereens during a planned detonation of illegal fireworks Wednesday night. Notorious ‘Wall Street Whiz Kid’ con man scamming Hollywood hipsters: report Rapper’s girlfriend breaks silence about his murder, says he ‘saved my life’ĭead LAPD cop was probing gang rape by colleagues: lawyer
It also got more money.Video shows elderly, disabled man get stabbed in neck at Taco Bell The unit got new X-ray devices, bomb suits and computers. In an interview, Richard Esposito, a journalist and co-author of “Bomb Squad,” a 2007 book about the New York unit, said many of its investigators retired after 9/11, and “a lot of fresh blood came in.” They studied bombings overseas, and gathered information on improvised explosive devices. Lieutenant Torre said that millions of dollars in grants had let the unit buy new equipment, including some of the tools used in Times Square on Saturday. But in the post 9/11 world, there have been more requests to help with security sweeps or to get advice on security matters. Today the calls are fewer, and the unit responds to 200 to 300 suspicious packages a year. Immediately after the attacks, the Bomb Squad was besieged by calls about suspicious packages. 11, the unit - which is charged with investigating suspicious items and helping in bombing investigations - was thrust into the forefront of the city’s law enforcement agencies, said Lieutenant Torre, who joined the Bomb Squad in 1993, and became its commander in 2002. After 9/11, the Bomb Squad received millions in financing for new equipment.
They were, he said, an “incredibly talented and competent risk takers.” The sense of humor tended toward the macabre, and the prevailing ethos was “hardly kumbaya,” he said.Ī police bomb truck in Times Square. McCarthy became the Bomb Squad’s commander in 1984, the memory of the Police Headquarters bombing was still fresh, but it had done nothing to diminish the fearlessness of some of his officers. 31, 1982, bombs set outside police headquarters and other locations maimed two squad members.
Murray, was killed in 1976 as he tried to defuse a bomb left at Grand Central Terminal. A demolition expert in the unit, Officer Brian J. Several of the unit’s members were killed or injured. Dozens of well-known militant groups, including the F.A.L.N and the Weathermen, planted bombs all over the city, at times almost as fast as the technicians could be dispatched to deal with them. In the 1960s and 1970s, they were called simply the Bomb Squad, and they were spread thin. In the 1940s and ’50s, the unit chased the Mad Bomber, George Metesky, as he waged his battle against Con Edison with dozens of explosive devices. On July 4, 1940, two Bomb Squad detectives were killed trying to defuse a bomb planted in the British Pavilion at the New York World’s Fair. Over the years, and depending on the perceived threat, the unit was called the Anarchist Squad and the Radical Squad, according to an article about the Bomb Squad printed in Spring 3100, an internal Police Department magazine. Members of the New York Police Department's Bomb Squad in Times Square on Saturday.
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