Around 2p.m today there was an explosion near LAX Airport that has killed one firefighter and injured possibly four others. One of the injured was another firefighter who has been been taken to UCLA Medical Center with a fractured ankle and a compound fracture to his arm. The cause of the explosion is still unknown. It happened in an electrical vault below a Citibank.
Several manhole covers were blown off, injuring several civilians. The two firefighters were taken to Daniel Freeman Memorial Hospital.
Firefighters were trying to find the source of the problem when a second explosion caused their injuries and damaged a building housing the Department of Water and Power’s credit union.
The explosion could be heard from miles away. Several block of Sepulveda and La Tijera boulevards were closed so that air ambulances could land in the intersection.
Subscribe to our RSS Feed And checkout our coffee competition to win a $30 gift voucher to your favourite coffee shop : click hereRueda said the cause of the explosion was still unknown.
“It appears to be related to what was occurring with the electrical vaults underneath the street, but as I stated, the cause of the explosion is unknown at this point.”
Joe Ramallo of the Department of Water and Power said early reports from the scene indicated that none of the agency’s underground vaults had exploded, and that a gas leak may have been responsible.
But Rueda said there was “no indication, no evidence, that natural gas was involved.”
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1 Jeff Barrick // Mar 26, 2008 at 6:29 pm
An explosion by LAX? Maybe it was Al-Qaeda. Boy I hope not because that would be bad right. We’re supposed to be fighting them over there so we don’t have to fight them here. I’ll just bet it was, and the end times are near.
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