The blast came just after 7:30 on a Friday morning, at the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department training center known as the Biscailuz Training Facility, in East Los Angeles. Three deputies died at the scene. Nobody else was hurt.
A bomb squad later made the site safe. Sheriff Robert Luna later gave an update and said plainly that he had little to share, because the investigation was only getting under way.
What he could say was short. He did not know what caused the explosion. He would not confirm what material the officers had been handling. Federal and local investigators were on scene, he said, and would give updates as they learned more. He told the public there was no further threat to the community.
Luna had already sat down with the families of two of the dead. He called the conversation “extremely challenging.”
The deputies had not been publicly identified. The family of the third had yet to be notified, and the department held the names back until it was.
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- At least three reported killed in explosion at Los Angeles sheriff's training facility
- At least three reported killed in explosion at Los Angeles sheriff's training facility
