July 18, 2025 • 28 mins
Tragedy struck the LA County Sheriff's Department as a devastating explosion at one of their facilities claimed the lives of three dedicated deputies. The incident has sent shockwaves through the community, highlighting the risks faced by those who serve and protect.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is Gary and Shannon and you're listening to KFI
AM six forty, the Gary and Shannon Show on demand
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Speaker 2 (00:07):
Well, let's just get right to it here.
Speaker 1 (00:09):
The biggest story nationally is a tragedy right here with
the La County Sheriff's Department. Three at least three deputies
have been killed this morning, just before seven thirty am.
It was during an explosion at the La County Sheriff's
Department training facility right there in East LA, right on
eastern there. The Special Enforcement Bureau is where this happened.
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These are the people that are responsible for handling high
risk tactical operations. This is the best of the best,
and the La County Sheriff's Department, as I've said, is
the best trained department in all of the land. So
this is tragedy upon tragedy, the biggest gut punch for
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this department in quite a while.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
These killed.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
Michael Monks from KFI News has been on top of this,
working the phones, working his sources and try and get
triangulating information for us and joins us Now with what
we know, Michael.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
This is a training facility in East LA that apparently
is where the La County Sheriff's Department houses the little
unit that responds to arson and explosive investigations. Now, the
La Times has reported, citing an unnamed source, that at
the time of this explosion, there were personnel on that
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site moving what they called explosive ordnance. Now they are
the only ones reporting that information right now, but that
makes it sound like just a terrible accident. And when
you think about what happened this morning in the context
of the broader national story happening around law enforcement and immigration,
it's not unbelievable to think a lot of people's minds
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went to really dark places when you first heard about this,
Because just yesterday's Sheriff Luna talk to the press that, yes,
the La County Sheriff's Department is handing illegal immigrants over
from the jails to federal agents. And that's not news
that is well received by an illegal immigrant activists that
want to see a softer touch, especially in an area
designated as a sanctuary city. But right now, this does
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appear to be some horrible, horrible incident. That is according
to even US Attorney General Pam Bondi, who has weighed
in She says she's spoken to US Attorney Bill as
Saley that they are monitoring the situation. The FBI is
on scene. She called it a horrific incident. Governor Newsom
says he's monitoring the situation and a local county supervisors
have also said that they're monitoring the situation, without revealing
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any confirming details. How many died, who were the folks
who died, What was happening at the moment of the explosion.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
Yeah, and it is fresh, you know, it happened about
two and a half hours ago. We are expecting some
sort of press conference with more detail, but by all
accounts at this point, it seems like it was an accident.
And the problem with the La Sheriff's Department and the
bomb squad and the staff there is they don't have
accidents like this. This is not something that happens with
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the La County Sheriff's Department. They pride themselves on being
the best and their Special Enforcement Bureau is the finest, and.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
So this is going to be.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
Really hard for the department, family, hard for the city obviously,
not minimizing what those three families are going to as well.
Now there was a fourth person taken to the hospital
as well.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
Michael Well, some media outlets are reporting that a fourth
person was injured. I hope that we get full numbers
on how many died, how many people were injured. When
Sheriff Luna addresses the media, we are expecting that at
any moment, but that part is unclear at this moment.
But this is a training facility, and when we first
heard about this and understood which unit is training there,
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you know, again your mind starts going, what would they
be training with a live explosive. I don't know how
law enforcement training operates, but would there be.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
They would be maybe I think it's more likely that
they were moving something, maybe that had been recovered or
who knows, and maybe didn't know exactly what they were
dealing with. You can operate with an abundance of caution
with these types of explosives, and unfortunately, like I said,
these are the best at what they do.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
But it just shows how dangerous this work can be.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
It's the absolute worst outcome that you can imagine. If
you were somebody who specializes in this type of law
enforcement work. You're the ones who show up and you
know from all your years in news, all my years
and news that there are many bomb scares, bomb threats,
suspicious packages that show up all over the place. And
these guys show up now almost always they turn out
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to be nothing. It was just something that frightened people enough,
or was made to frighten people enough to require this response.
But before we know that. The only reason we know
that is because of people like this who will go
up and get close enough to it to investigate it
and diffuse it. It is a horrifying job. And as
you keep saying, these are highly trained, highly skilled individuals
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who respond to those calls. So what was going on
here is what I'm anxious to learn about.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
It shows just how powerful this explosion was to when
several vehicles windows A patrol car twenty five yards away
had its windows blasted out twenty five yards away from
this explosion site, which is covered by a massive tarp,
as well as you can imagine as they dig into.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
What happened here.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
And you are right, I mean, we have the associated
press wire up all day every day when you work
in news, and several times we'll get an alert I
would say twice a week at least you get an
alert that I'm sitting here twice a week at least,
that there's a suspicious device.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
On the corner of Van Owen and what have you.
You know what I mean.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
It happens all the time, and they roll out to
this and they don't know what They don't know what
they're facing. They don't know who put it there, they
don't know what's inside, They don't know how powerful it is.
When you think about the type of work that these
men and women do every day, it is a gamble.
When they pull over a car, we talk about it.
We just had to chase the other day. You don't
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know what you're dealing with. You just like an explosive device.
You don't know what's inside that car. You don't know
what kind of drugs that person is on, what kind
of weapons they have, what kind of mentality. There are
so many unknowns when it comes to police work, and
they pride themselves on knowing those unknowns, making conjectures based
on all of their experience. And the bomb Squad is
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the upper echelon of that kind of experience and that
kind of knowing what to do to stay safe. So
anyway as you can imagine a massive presence there at
Sheriff's headquarters there and on Eastern in East LA. We
will stay on top of this. We will bring it
to the presser obviously when it happens. Live but still
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very fresh, very few details that have come out of
this one at this point. Michael Monks continues to join
us from KFI News. He's on top of this as
well as everything going on in Los Angeles. It's just
what he does.
Speaker 4 (07:18):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
Am six forty.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
We are on top of the story coming out of
the East LA, the Sheriff's training center there on Eastern
Three deputies killed this morning in an explosion from the
La County Sheriff's Department there of the Special Enforcement Bureau.
Michael Monks has been triangulating all the information and fills
us in with all the latest details.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
It's just a tragedy, a terrible tragedy, and we're still
unsure of what led up to it as we await
this news conference from the Sheriff's department to give us
some official details from their initial investigation. But what we
do know for certain is that this is a training facility.
This is called the Special Enforcement Bureau. Basically that would
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be the equivalent of what we commonly refer to as
a SWAT team special weapons and tactics that you see
in in municipal police departments. So it's an important training
facility also a place that houses their version of the
SWAT team, the Special Enforcement Bureau. But additionally it's where
they house the Arson and Explosives Team, their bomb squad,
and this is also where a lot of vehicles are
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kept for vehicle maintenance for the Sheriff's Department. And sometime
around seven twenty five, seven thirty this morning, a call
was made that a serious explosion had taken place. And
now here we are, almost three hours after the fact,
and we're learning that at least three people have been killed.
It's being reported elsewhere that these three people are deputies,
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and what they were doing, why they were doing it,
that's still unclear. We're waiting for that information. The LAPD
is also on the scene there to help the Sheriff's
department investigate. This has to be the worst type of
investigation when you think of all the horrible scenes that
sheriff's deputies have to show up to around this county,
but to investigate a situation involving people, you work with,
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people that you might know.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
And the best at what they do.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
You touched on the Special Enforcement Bureau, and yeah, that's
exactly what it is. I mean, this is a bureau
that specializes in solving the most dangerous situations through experience
and training and the use of the most highly specialized weapons.
These are the guys that handle the high risk tactical operations,
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the barricaded suspects, and that's why you know, when SWAT
is involved and something goes wrong, it's even more shocking
if that's even a thing. They deal with the hostage situations,
the high risk warrant problems. They protect the President and
the Vice president of the United States. They mission specific
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assignments as well. I mean, these are the guys that
you call in to handle things to poor perfection, and
that is the Special Enforcement Bureau. Where this where this
went down? Now, we don't know, again, it's all speculation
at this point until we hear from from the sheriff's
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deputies or the sheriff's officials on the scene.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
There.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
The the the response is as massive as it can be. Obviously,
whenever law enforcement is involved in a situation like this
and when it's at the training facility, every black and
white you can imagine as there. Like you said, the
LAPD has shown up as well. But we don't know
if these deputies were involved with the Special Enforcement Bureau.
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We don't know if they what unit they were involved in.
We just don't know, and it's it's it's I would
be surprised. I mean I was surprised when we heard
that the presser is imminent because it is still so fresh.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
I would think that there would have been some directive,
based on experience on these scenes, that there would have
at least been an initial briefing maybe what we're going
to get, Yeah, even if it's just to kind of
show people away, to stop any speculation that may lead
to dangerous coverage or might get us in trouble or
scare the public in a way that the Serious Department
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doesn't want because it's inaccurate. So I mean, they could
have I would have expected that by now they would
have had one of their public information officers say something
briefly saying I can't take questions, but this is what
I can tell you right now.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
Right something of this was an accident.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
This was just to just to stop the theories before
they start.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
And there are a lot out there.
Speaker 3 (11:43):
I mean there are there there. Well, not necessarily theories
about what happened, but there's reporting with a lot of
unnamed sources, and we use this. I know that gets
criticized sometimes, but for legitimate press to cite an unnamed source,
that typically involves a cordial proff relationship between journalists and
the source to where they do feel confident enough to
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cite that unnamed source. Putting somebody's information in print or
on broadcast without naming them specifically, so that they can
speak freely and that that information can be used. That's
what we're seeing a lot of. And I noted in
the last segment, and I'll note again that the La
Times has cited an unnamed source saying that when this
explosion happened, that there was a team of folks on
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scene here moving what they characterized as explosive ordinance. And
as you were saying, Shannon, I mean, these are people
that you call in to deal with that sort of thing,
So it.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
Could have been something they recovered and they were seeing
what they were dealing with and in the process.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
Of moving it is when uh interrupted.
Speaker 3 (12:49):
It's just a horrible thing because you think about something superficial,
like it's such a beautiful day today in southern California
and it's Friday, and people are feeling good, and then
you have this horrible situation take place at an LA
Sheriff's Department training facility and there are at least three families.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
Three families, three people that got up, put their uniform
on today, put their badge on today, kiss their wife
and kids, husband, kids, what have you? Went to work
like any other day, probably thinking about what they were
going to do this weekend, what was going on, what
was going on after work? Maybe today, just trying to
get through the Friday. And that's how dangerous this work is.
And it's a reminder to everyone, not just behind the badge,
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but the people that those men and women protect every day.
There's no routine work in law enforcement. There just isn't.
Speaker 3 (13:42):
It's true, all of us every day are rolling the
dice by getting out of bed and leaving the house.
I mean, anything can happen to any of us at
any time, but there are certainly professional roles in our society,
particularly law enforcement, where you actually have to keep that
in the back of your mind very actively every single
day that something happens.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
But this you can't. That's the other thing. You can't.
You can't.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
You can't operate like that drives you mad. You know, well,
it doesn't keep you safe. So I mean that's the
that's a great conundrum of being in law enforcement is
you've got to keep your head on a swivel. I
guess that's the way to do it. But you can't
think about how all the things that could happen to
you or change the way you respond to everything. That's
why you and I are in this padded room. Nobody
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has trusted us with a badge.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
It is relatively safe. We're mostly a danger to the
company's bottom line if something unfortunate comes out of our
mouths and then we get in trouble. But we are
very fortunate to have these roles comfortably inside when there
are folks out there who are are doing very, very
difficult work.
Speaker 4 (14:45):
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Speaker 1 (14:50):
We are waiting any word coming out of the Sheriff's
department here in La County, where three deputies were killed
this morning in an explosion at a train facility. We
don't have many details other than they may have been
transporting a recovered ordinance, a recovered explosive, but again that
is all speculation from sources on the scene. No official
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word what led to this. Happened just before seven point
thirty this morning. We do have the La Fire Department
atf Arson, investigators on the scene, the LAPD bomb squad
as well. It's all hands on deck in the family,
that is first responders here in La County.
Speaker 3 (15:30):
The Sheriff's Department has released a statement. They say tragically
there were three department member fatalities and that Sheriff's homicide
detectives are on the scene. So if we break down
those two sentences, a couple of things. Three department member fatalities.
The police public facing language is not always legible for
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the general public. You have to kind of translate it.
I don't know that I can completely translate that. I
know that it does not explicitly say three sheriffs deputies,
for example, So what role these folks were playing in
the department is not yet officially confirmed. And then Shannon
for them to say Sheriff's homicide detectives are on the scene,
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that could certainly raise the hair on the back of
one's neck considering the environment we live in, but that
doesn't necessarily mean what we never think.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
That's textbook you're going to get.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
The sheriff's homicide to any killing, any death that is not.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
Natural causes, that's what they respond to.
Speaker 3 (16:31):
But they have confirmed three people affiliated with the Sheriff's
department have been killed in this explosion that was first
reported around seven point thirty this morning at a Sheriff's
Department training facility in East LA. Apparently, a department media
representative has not indicated that anyone was taken from the
scene to a hospital. We had heard other reports that
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at least one other person had been taken to the hospital.
The Sheriff's Department has not said that was the case.
US Attorney General Pam Bondi was among the first federal
officials to comment on this. She posted on x that
she had already spoken with La County Sheriff Robert Luna,
as well as US Attorney Bill A. Saley here in
Los Angeles, and confirmed that the FBI and the Bureau
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of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms ATF were assisting with the investigation.
That department also includes explosives in its name. She says,
Our federal agents are at the scene and we were
working to learn more.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
I have not fallen into any sort of algorithm where
there are alternate theories that are being talked about. But
by all accounts, from what we know, this was not targeted.
This was during the handling of an unexploded ordinance at
the bomb squad facility. Everything textbook, there no indications of
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targeting or anything like that.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
That doesn't make it any any.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
Easier for the three families, the three deputies who were killed,
the entire family that is, the La County Sheriff's Department
and all first responders in Los Angeles County. And that's
why you see a response like that. Everybody races to
the scene, no matter if you're called to the scene
or not. If you hear that three deputies have been
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killed in a training exercise at Sheriff's headquarters and you
are a police fire, you're gonna make sure you can
leave whatever post you're at and you're just gonna go
whatever you can do however you can help. And that
is what we're seeing there in East LA this morning. Again,
we are awaiting any sort of press information press conference
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from the training facility. There there are also reporters outside
of Los Angeles General. I don't know, like you said,
there was a report that a fourth person was taken
to a hospital.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
We have since not seen any more information on that.
Speaker 3 (18:47):
And the Sheriff's office says that no one was taken,
no one from the scene to a hoste.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
Interesting. Now, East LA is.
Speaker 3 (18:54):
Unincorporated, so it is part of Los Angeles County, not
part of the City of Los Angeles, but La Mayor
Caring Bass has said the city is supporting the investigation
with the city fire departments, Arson investigators, and the LAPD
bomb squad personnel. She says the thoughts of all Angelino's
are with all of those impacted by this blast. Senator
Adam Shift excuse me, Shift has called the incident an
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unbelievable tragedy. He says he's praying for the deputy's families
and every member of the Sheriff's office. And Congresswoman Judy
two has posted on x as well. She says she
is heartbroken by the tragic news of the explosion at
the training facility, and she says it's in Monterey Park
that claim the lives of three brave deputies.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
It is Monterey Park.
Speaker 3 (19:36):
And she represents Monterey Park, of course, and so I
guess they meant east because Monterey Park is an incorporated city.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
Is it is Monterey Park East LA Area. It's all
very fungible there along the seven Tiens.
Speaker 3 (19:48):
Okay, I mean that's an editorial conversation I suppose on
how we give the dateline of where things are, but
Monterey Park, East LA Area and any respect, it's not
the City of Los Angeles, but the City of Los
Angeles is supporting this investigation.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
We will stay on top of this, bring you to
the press conference when it happens. We will cover other
information coming up on the show.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
Today.
Speaker 4 (20:11):
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Speaker 1 (20:16):
The Heartbreaker out of City Terrace, East La Monterey Park.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
You know where Sheriff's headquarters is.
Speaker 1 (20:22):
It was a deadly explosion this morning at the training
facility there that has killed three deputies. This happened just
before seven point thirty this morning there on Eastern Avenue.
And this is the compound that houses the Sheriff's departments
Special Enforcement Units Bomb Squad.
Speaker 2 (20:41):
It is their equivalent.
Speaker 1 (20:42):
As Deborah reported to a swat team, it's the finest
of the finest, the best trained of the best trained.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
Three deputies killed.
Speaker 1 (20:51):
At this time, there is no reason to believe there
is anything nefarious that went on. It does appear from
rapport that sheriff's enforcement personnel were handling some kind of
explosives when there was a blast. They may have been
transporting and ordinance that was recovered somewhere. We just don't
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know the particulars. We're just getting preliminary information from sources.
But the big headline is that three deputies were killed
in this incident.
Speaker 3 (21:22):
What the Sheriff's Department has said specifically is that three
department members have died in this and I don't know
if we will find out when the sheriff speaks at
some point whether that means these folks weren't necessarily deputies
or there were some other title involved. But just to
clarify that, the Sheriff's Department hasn't said three deputies yet,
they use the term department member fatalities. We have gotten
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word that there's to be a news conference at around noon.
This is what we've been waiting for so that we
can get some official details. Hopefully this will shed some
light on what these folks were doing, what were the
circumstances surrounding this explosion. We've heard Channon talked this morning
about how specialized these folks are when it comes to
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responding to explosive ordnance, bomb threats, SWAT calls, those sorts
of things. These are the most precise individuals that work
in these law enforcement agencies. So what could have possibly
led to this moment? That's what I think we are
all anxious to hear. We may not know that at
the noon news conference. I mean, we might have some
details on what the initial task was, but we might
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not necessarily learn everything we need to know at twelve o'clock.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
You think back, how could you not about what happened
a handful of years ago June twenty twenty one in
South LA when the LAPD Bomb Squad was handling a
bunch of fireworks and that explosion that was a planned
detonation by the LAPD bomb Squad, and it was deemed
a catastrophic failure of the containment vessel that they were using.
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There are still people out of their homes. I mean,
there's a whole nother conversation you can have about those
people trying to milk the system and getting money and
staying where they want to stay because the city done
eft up.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
But the city eft up in that situation.
Speaker 1 (23:12):
Damage to homes, businesses, vehicles, seventeen people injured. It is
a wonder nobody was killed with that size of an explosion.
Speaker 3 (23:20):
It's been costly, it's been a killer to the city
budget because not only are their lawsuits to settle, not
only are there repairs to be made, but as you noted,
even now four years later, there are still people who
are living in alternative housing that the city is paying
for because of what happened. In fact, just this year,
Councilman Current Price, who represents that district, got the support
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from the rest of the council to continue paying for
that stuff.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
And that's aside from the twenty million dollars settlement exactly
as well.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
So, yeah, that has been about.
Speaker 3 (23:49):
So these things don't always go right.
Speaker 1 (23:50):
They don't go right, but it's glaring when they go
wrong because they usually do go right.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
You know.
Speaker 3 (23:56):
As catastrophic as that was to that neighborhood and the
people living there, fortunately it wasn't deadly this situation was deadly,
and I was deadly to the team that was working
at this site.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
It was a shock when that happened that nobody died
because of just the power of these explosives at that time, that.
Speaker 2 (24:13):
Was the fireworks.
Speaker 1 (24:14):
But yeah, so we again we are waiting on the
particulars of what exactly we know they were handling there
at the training facility. Three people killed. You've got everyone
weighing in on this, from the Attorney General Pambondi to
you know, various lawmakers or whatever, and what they say
means nothing. The FBI has responded to assist with the incident.
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Verureau of atf is that everyone is there because when
something like this happens, like we've mentioned, you also want
to make sure that there are no other explosives materials
connected to whatever this ordinance was or that is just
stored there that's vulnerable to any sort of detonation as well.
Speaker 3 (25:00):
Make sure that there's there's no threat outside of this.
We live in such a volatile time, especially with the
immediate circumstances surrounding immigration protests. The local law enforcement's role
in any federal immigration enforcement activity. It was just yesterday,
not even twenty four hours ago, in fact, that Sheriff
Robert Luna had to finally come out and talk to
the press about why the Sheriff's Department was handing over
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illegal immigrants to federal agents from the jails, a practice
that they had not engaged in for several years and
that was highly criticized by activists.
Speaker 1 (25:30):
Here we've talked about what an e fed up world
we live in. Just the fact that there are explosives
being handled at seven point thirty in the morning right
next to the ten there, that close proximity, you know,
brings up a number of questions that right now Sheriff's
officials are trying to iron out answers for with their
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pios and the like in terms of what we tell
the public in terms of what kind of fire power.
Quite legitimately we have stored at this location because of
people who want to be bad actors, because of their
nefarious intentions in some cases, unfortunately, that's just the world
we live in. To know that there are this type
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of firepower right there in a very heavily populated area
is probably something that the Sheriff's Department did.
Speaker 3 (26:20):
Not want us all to know about, and it's top
of mind now because we just went through the height
of fireworks season. I know we all live in parts
of the city perhaps where you hear them all year long,
but the height of the season is just passed, and
we saw tragedies, multiple tragedies here and around California, especially
up up closer to San Francisco and the Bay Area.
Just a terrible warehouse. We're hearing from folks in commerce
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in recent days that there is a warehouse there that
is vulnerable to that type of accident, that they don't
want those materials housed there. It's top of mind right now.
So you've got the fireworks thing top of mind, you've
got the ongoing tense battle over illegal immigration, and and
what you might ultimately have here is just a tragic accident.
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But with those things hanging in the background, there's going
to be many conversations we had about the safety and
the location of that facility.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
Right and the location if you're unfamiliar. Sometimes I get
too familiar because I've been out there countless times to
cover Sheriff's department things.
Speaker 2 (27:20):
This is if you're if you.
Speaker 1 (27:21):
Pass downtown, go in eastbound, you're on the ten and
it's right before you get to the seven ten is
where that that Sheriff's building is and so you know
it's Greater East LA. But Monterey Park is the area
I'm home of great dim sum ps.
Speaker 3 (27:34):
Yeah, they have a lot of great uh that's over
that way.
Speaker 1 (27:37):
Incredible, Okay, when we come back, we will stay on
top of its. Thank you Michael Monks for shedding all
the light that you have this morning and all of
the reporting you will continue to do throughout throughout the
day here on KFI News. We'll stay on top of this,
bring you to the press or Alive. In the meantime,
a lot of other news to get to today, including
the President threatening to sue the Wall Street Journal. He's
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having field day with the media today, and details about
how Pam Bondi may release some Jeffrey Epstein information.
Speaker 2 (28:08):
Will have all that for you coming up next. You've
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Speaker 2 (00:07):
Well, let's just get right to it here.
Speaker 1 (00:09):
The biggest story nationally is a tragedy right here with
the La County Sheriff's Department. Three at least three deputies
have been killed this morning, just before seven thirty am.
It was during an explosion at the La County Sheriff's
Department training facility right there in East LA, right on
eastern there. The Special Enforcement Bureau is where this happened.
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These are the people that are responsible for handling high
risk tactical operations. This is the best of the best,
and the La County Sheriff's Department, as I've said, is
the best trained department in all of the land. So
this is tragedy upon tragedy, the biggest gut punch for
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this department in quite a while.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
These killed.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
Michael Monks from KFI News has been on top of this,
working the phones, working his sources and try and get
triangulating information for us and joins us Now with what
we know, Michael.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
This is a training facility in East LA that apparently
is where the La County Sheriff's Department houses the little
unit that responds to arson and explosive investigations. Now, the
La Times has reported, citing an unnamed source, that at
the time of this explosion, there were personnel on that
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site moving what they called explosive ordnance. Now they are
the only ones reporting that information right now, but that
makes it sound like just a terrible accident. And when
you think about what happened this morning in the context
of the broader national story happening around law enforcement and immigration,
it's not unbelievable to think a lot of people's minds
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went to really dark places when you first heard about this,
Because just yesterday's Sheriff Luna talk to the press that, yes,
the La County Sheriff's Department is handing illegal immigrants over
from the jails to federal agents. And that's not news
that is well received by an illegal immigrant activists that
want to see a softer touch, especially in an area
designated as a sanctuary city. But right now, this does
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appear to be some horrible, horrible incident. That is according
to even US Attorney General Pam Bondi, who has weighed
in She says she's spoken to US Attorney Bill as
Saley that they are monitoring the situation. The FBI is
on scene. She called it a horrific incident. Governor Newsom
says he's monitoring the situation and a local county supervisors
have also said that they're monitoring the situation, without revealing
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any confirming details. How many died, who were the folks
who died, What was happening at the moment of the explosion.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
Yeah, and it is fresh, you know, it happened about
two and a half hours ago. We are expecting some
sort of press conference with more detail, but by all
accounts at this point, it seems like it was an accident.
And the problem with the La Sheriff's Department and the
bomb squad and the staff there is they don't have
accidents like this. This is not something that happens with
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the La County Sheriff's Department. They pride themselves on being
the best and their Special Enforcement Bureau is the finest, and.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
So this is going to be.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
Really hard for the department, family, hard for the city obviously,
not minimizing what those three families are going to as well.
Now there was a fourth person taken to the hospital
as well.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
Michael Well, some media outlets are reporting that a fourth
person was injured. I hope that we get full numbers
on how many died, how many people were injured. When
Sheriff Luna addresses the media, we are expecting that at
any moment, but that part is unclear at this moment.
But this is a training facility, and when we first
heard about this and understood which unit is training there,
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you know, again your mind starts going, what would they
be training with a live explosive. I don't know how
law enforcement training operates, but would there be.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
They would be maybe I think it's more likely that
they were moving something, maybe that had been recovered or
who knows, and maybe didn't know exactly what they were
dealing with. You can operate with an abundance of caution
with these types of explosives, and unfortunately, like I said,
these are the best at what they do.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
But it just shows how dangerous this work can be.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
It's the absolute worst outcome that you can imagine. If
you were somebody who specializes in this type of law
enforcement work. You're the ones who show up and you
know from all your years in news, all my years
and news that there are many bomb scares, bomb threats,
suspicious packages that show up all over the place. And
these guys show up now almost always they turn out
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to be nothing. It was just something that frightened people enough,
or was made to frighten people enough to require this response.
But before we know that. The only reason we know
that is because of people like this who will go
up and get close enough to it to investigate it
and diffuse it. It is a horrifying job. And as
you keep saying, these are highly trained, highly skilled individuals
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who respond to those calls. So what was going on
here is what I'm anxious to learn about.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
It shows just how powerful this explosion was to when
several vehicles windows A patrol car twenty five yards away
had its windows blasted out twenty five yards away from
this explosion site, which is covered by a massive tarp,
as well as you can imagine as they dig into.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
What happened here.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
And you are right, I mean, we have the associated
press wire up all day every day when you work
in news, and several times we'll get an alert I
would say twice a week at least you get an
alert that I'm sitting here twice a week at least,
that there's a suspicious device.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
On the corner of Van Owen and what have you.
You know what I mean.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
It happens all the time, and they roll out to
this and they don't know what They don't know what
they're facing. They don't know who put it there, they
don't know what's inside, They don't know how powerful it is.
When you think about the type of work that these
men and women do every day, it is a gamble.
When they pull over a car, we talk about it.
We just had to chase the other day. You don't
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know what you're dealing with. You just like an explosive device.
You don't know what's inside that car. You don't know
what kind of drugs that person is on, what kind
of weapons they have, what kind of mentality. There are
so many unknowns when it comes to police work, and
they pride themselves on knowing those unknowns, making conjectures based
on all of their experience. And the bomb Squad is
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the upper echelon of that kind of experience and that
kind of knowing what to do to stay safe. So
anyway as you can imagine a massive presence there at
Sheriff's headquarters there and on Eastern in East LA. We
will stay on top of this. We will bring it
to the presser obviously when it happens. Live but still
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very fresh, very few details that have come out of
this one at this point. Michael Monks continues to join
us from KFI News. He's on top of this as
well as everything going on in Los Angeles. It's just
what he does.
Speaker 4 (07:18):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
Am six forty.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
We are on top of the story coming out of
the East LA, the Sheriff's training center there on Eastern
Three deputies killed this morning in an explosion from the
La County Sheriff's Department there of the Special Enforcement Bureau.
Michael Monks has been triangulating all the information and fills
us in with all the latest details.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
It's just a tragedy, a terrible tragedy, and we're still
unsure of what led up to it as we await
this news conference from the Sheriff's department to give us
some official details from their initial investigation. But what we
do know for certain is that this is a training facility.
This is called the Special Enforcement Bureau. Basically that would
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be the equivalent of what we commonly refer to as
a SWAT team special weapons and tactics that you see
in in municipal police departments. So it's an important training
facility also a place that houses their version of the
SWAT team, the Special Enforcement Bureau. But additionally it's where
they house the Arson and Explosives Team, their bomb squad,
and this is also where a lot of vehicles are
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kept for vehicle maintenance for the Sheriff's Department. And sometime
around seven twenty five, seven thirty this morning, a call
was made that a serious explosion had taken place. And
now here we are, almost three hours after the fact,
and we're learning that at least three people have been killed.
It's being reported elsewhere that these three people are deputies,
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and what they were doing, why they were doing it,
that's still unclear. We're waiting for that information. The LAPD
is also on the scene there to help the Sheriff's
department investigate. This has to be the worst type of
investigation when you think of all the horrible scenes that
sheriff's deputies have to show up to around this county,
but to investigate a situation involving people, you work with,
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people that you might know.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
And the best at what they do.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
You touched on the Special Enforcement Bureau, and yeah, that's
exactly what it is. I mean, this is a bureau
that specializes in solving the most dangerous situations through experience
and training and the use of the most highly specialized weapons.
These are the guys that handle the high risk tactical operations,
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the barricaded suspects, and that's why you know, when SWAT
is involved and something goes wrong, it's even more shocking
if that's even a thing. They deal with the hostage situations,
the high risk warrant problems. They protect the President and
the Vice president of the United States. They mission specific
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assignments as well. I mean, these are the guys that
you call in to handle things to poor perfection, and
that is the Special Enforcement Bureau. Where this where this
went down? Now, we don't know, again, it's all speculation
at this point until we hear from from the sheriff's
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deputies or the sheriff's officials on the scene.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
There.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
The the the response is as massive as it can be. Obviously,
whenever law enforcement is involved in a situation like this
and when it's at the training facility, every black and
white you can imagine as there. Like you said, the
LAPD has shown up as well. But we don't know
if these deputies were involved with the Special Enforcement Bureau.
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We don't know if they what unit they were involved in.
We just don't know, and it's it's it's I would
be surprised. I mean I was surprised when we heard
that the presser is imminent because it is still so fresh.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
I would think that there would have been some directive,
based on experience on these scenes, that there would have
at least been an initial briefing maybe what we're going
to get, Yeah, even if it's just to kind of
show people away, to stop any speculation that may lead
to dangerous coverage or might get us in trouble or
scare the public in a way that the Serious Department
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doesn't want because it's inaccurate. So I mean, they could
have I would have expected that by now they would
have had one of their public information officers say something
briefly saying I can't take questions, but this is what
I can tell you right now.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
Right something of this was an accident.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
This was just to just to stop the theories before
they start.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
And there are a lot out there.
Speaker 3 (11:43):
I mean there are there there. Well, not necessarily theories
about what happened, but there's reporting with a lot of
unnamed sources, and we use this. I know that gets
criticized sometimes, but for legitimate press to cite an unnamed source,
that typically involves a cordial proff relationship between journalists and
the source to where they do feel confident enough to
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cite that unnamed source. Putting somebody's information in print or
on broadcast without naming them specifically, so that they can
speak freely and that that information can be used. That's
what we're seeing a lot of. And I noted in
the last segment, and I'll note again that the La
Times has cited an unnamed source saying that when this
explosion happened, that there was a team of folks on
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scene here moving what they characterized as explosive ordinance. And
as you were saying, Shannon, I mean, these are people
that you call in to deal with that sort of thing,
So it.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
Could have been something they recovered and they were seeing
what they were dealing with and in the process.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
Of moving it is when uh interrupted.
Speaker 3 (12:49):
It's just a horrible thing because you think about something superficial,
like it's such a beautiful day today in southern California
and it's Friday, and people are feeling good, and then
you have this horrible situation take place at an LA
Sheriff's Department training facility and there are at least three families.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
Three families, three people that got up, put their uniform
on today, put their badge on today, kiss their wife
and kids, husband, kids, what have you? Went to work
like any other day, probably thinking about what they were
going to do this weekend, what was going on, what
was going on after work? Maybe today, just trying to
get through the Friday. And that's how dangerous this work is.
And it's a reminder to everyone, not just behind the badge,
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but the people that those men and women protect every day.
There's no routine work in law enforcement. There just isn't.
Speaker 3 (13:42):
It's true, all of us every day are rolling the
dice by getting out of bed and leaving the house.
I mean, anything can happen to any of us at
any time, but there are certainly professional roles in our society,
particularly law enforcement, where you actually have to keep that
in the back of your mind very actively every single
day that something happens.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
But this you can't. That's the other thing. You can't.
You can't.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
You can't operate like that drives you mad. You know, well,
it doesn't keep you safe. So I mean that's the
that's a great conundrum of being in law enforcement is
you've got to keep your head on a swivel. I
guess that's the way to do it. But you can't
think about how all the things that could happen to
you or change the way you respond to everything. That's
why you and I are in this padded room. Nobody
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has trusted us with a badge.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
It is relatively safe. We're mostly a danger to the
company's bottom line if something unfortunate comes out of our
mouths and then we get in trouble. But we are
very fortunate to have these roles comfortably inside when there
are folks out there who are are doing very, very
difficult work.
Speaker 4 (14:45):
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Speaker 1 (14:50):
We are waiting any word coming out of the Sheriff's
department here in La County, where three deputies were killed
this morning in an explosion at a train facility. We
don't have many details other than they may have been
transporting a recovered ordinance, a recovered explosive, but again that
is all speculation from sources on the scene. No official
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word what led to this. Happened just before seven point
thirty this morning. We do have the La Fire Department
atf Arson, investigators on the scene, the LAPD bomb squad
as well. It's all hands on deck in the family,
that is first responders here in La County.
Speaker 3 (15:30):
The Sheriff's Department has released a statement. They say tragically
there were three department member fatalities and that Sheriff's homicide
detectives are on the scene. So if we break down
those two sentences, a couple of things. Three department member fatalities.
The police public facing language is not always legible for
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the general public. You have to kind of translate it.
I don't know that I can completely translate that. I
know that it does not explicitly say three sheriffs deputies,
for example, So what role these folks were playing in
the department is not yet officially confirmed. And then Shannon
for them to say Sheriff's homicide detectives are on the scene,
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that could certainly raise the hair on the back of
one's neck considering the environment we live in, but that
doesn't necessarily mean what we never think.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
That's textbook you're going to get.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
The sheriff's homicide to any killing, any death that is not.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
Natural causes, that's what they respond to.
Speaker 3 (16:31):
But they have confirmed three people affiliated with the Sheriff's
department have been killed in this explosion that was first
reported around seven point thirty this morning at a Sheriff's
Department training facility in East LA. Apparently, a department media
representative has not indicated that anyone was taken from the
scene to a hospital. We had heard other reports that
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at least one other person had been taken to the hospital.
The Sheriff's Department has not said that was the case.
US Attorney General Pam Bondi was among the first federal
officials to comment on this. She posted on x that
she had already spoken with La County Sheriff Robert Luna,
as well as US Attorney Bill A. Saley here in
Los Angeles, and confirmed that the FBI and the Bureau
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of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms ATF were assisting with the investigation.
That department also includes explosives in its name. She says,
Our federal agents are at the scene and we were
working to learn more.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
I have not fallen into any sort of algorithm where
there are alternate theories that are being talked about. But
by all accounts, from what we know, this was not targeted.
This was during the handling of an unexploded ordinance at
the bomb squad facility. Everything textbook, there no indications of
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targeting or anything like that.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
That doesn't make it any any.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
Easier for the three families, the three deputies who were killed,
the entire family that is, the La County Sheriff's Department
and all first responders in Los Angeles County. And that's
why you see a response like that. Everybody races to
the scene, no matter if you're called to the scene
or not. If you hear that three deputies have been
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killed in a training exercise at Sheriff's headquarters and you
are a police fire, you're gonna make sure you can
leave whatever post you're at and you're just gonna go
whatever you can do however you can help. And that
is what we're seeing there in East LA this morning. Again,
we are awaiting any sort of press information press conference
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from the training facility. There there are also reporters outside
of Los Angeles General. I don't know, like you said,
there was a report that a fourth person was taken
to a hospital.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
We have since not seen any more information on that.
Speaker 3 (18:47):
And the Sheriff's office says that no one was taken,
no one from the scene to a hoste.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
Interesting. Now, East LA is.
Speaker 3 (18:54):
Unincorporated, so it is part of Los Angeles County, not
part of the City of Los Angeles, but La Mayor
Caring Bass has said the city is supporting the investigation
with the city fire departments, Arson investigators, and the LAPD
bomb squad personnel. She says the thoughts of all Angelino's
are with all of those impacted by this blast. Senator
Adam Shift excuse me, Shift has called the incident an
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unbelievable tragedy. He says he's praying for the deputy's families
and every member of the Sheriff's office. And Congresswoman Judy
two has posted on x as well. She says she
is heartbroken by the tragic news of the explosion at
the training facility, and she says it's in Monterey Park
that claim the lives of three brave deputies.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
It is Monterey Park.
Speaker 3 (19:36):
And she represents Monterey Park, of course, and so I
guess they meant east because Monterey Park is an incorporated city.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
Is it is Monterey Park East LA Area. It's all
very fungible there along the seven Tiens.
Speaker 3 (19:48):
Okay, I mean that's an editorial conversation I suppose on
how we give the dateline of where things are, but
Monterey Park, East LA Area and any respect, it's not
the City of Los Angeles, but the City of Los
Angeles is supporting this investigation.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
We will stay on top of this, bring you to
the press conference when it happens. We will cover other
information coming up on the show.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
Today.
Speaker 4 (20:11):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
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Speaker 1 (20:16):
The Heartbreaker out of City Terrace, East La Monterey Park.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
You know where Sheriff's headquarters is.
Speaker 1 (20:22):
It was a deadly explosion this morning at the training
facility there that has killed three deputies. This happened just
before seven point thirty this morning there on Eastern Avenue.
And this is the compound that houses the Sheriff's departments
Special Enforcement Units Bomb Squad.
Speaker 2 (20:41):
It is their equivalent.
Speaker 1 (20:42):
As Deborah reported to a swat team, it's the finest
of the finest, the best trained of the best trained.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
Three deputies killed.
Speaker 1 (20:51):
At this time, there is no reason to believe there
is anything nefarious that went on. It does appear from
rapport that sheriff's enforcement personnel were handling some kind of
explosives when there was a blast. They may have been
transporting and ordinance that was recovered somewhere. We just don't
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know the particulars. We're just getting preliminary information from sources.
But the big headline is that three deputies were killed
in this incident.
Speaker 3 (21:22):
What the Sheriff's Department has said specifically is that three
department members have died in this and I don't know
if we will find out when the sheriff speaks at
some point whether that means these folks weren't necessarily deputies
or there were some other title involved. But just to
clarify that, the Sheriff's Department hasn't said three deputies yet,
they use the term department member fatalities. We have gotten
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word that there's to be a news conference at around noon.
This is what we've been waiting for so that we
can get some official details. Hopefully this will shed some
light on what these folks were doing, what were the
circumstances surrounding this explosion. We've heard Channon talked this morning
about how specialized these folks are when it comes to
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responding to explosive ordnance, bomb threats, SWAT calls, those sorts
of things. These are the most precise individuals that work
in these law enforcement agencies. So what could have possibly
led to this moment? That's what I think we are
all anxious to hear. We may not know that at
the noon news conference. I mean, we might have some
details on what the initial task was, but we might
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not necessarily learn everything we need to know at twelve o'clock.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
You think back, how could you not about what happened
a handful of years ago June twenty twenty one in
South LA when the LAPD Bomb Squad was handling a
bunch of fireworks and that explosion that was a planned
detonation by the LAPD bomb Squad, and it was deemed
a catastrophic failure of the containment vessel that they were using.
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There are still people out of their homes. I mean,
there's a whole nother conversation you can have about those
people trying to milk the system and getting money and
staying where they want to stay because the city done
eft up.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
But the city eft up in that situation.
Speaker 1 (23:12):
Damage to homes, businesses, vehicles, seventeen people injured. It is
a wonder nobody was killed with that size of an explosion.
Speaker 3 (23:20):
It's been costly, it's been a killer to the city
budget because not only are their lawsuits to settle, not
only are there repairs to be made, but as you noted,
even now four years later, there are still people who
are living in alternative housing that the city is paying
for because of what happened. In fact, just this year,
Councilman Current Price, who represents that district, got the support
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from the rest of the council to continue paying for
that stuff.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
And that's aside from the twenty million dollars settlement exactly
as well.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
So, yeah, that has been about.
Speaker 3 (23:49):
So these things don't always go right.
Speaker 1 (23:50):
They don't go right, but it's glaring when they go
wrong because they usually do go right.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
You know.
Speaker 3 (23:56):
As catastrophic as that was to that neighborhood and the
people living there, fortunately it wasn't deadly this situation was deadly,
and I was deadly to the team that was working
at this site.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
It was a shock when that happened that nobody died
because of just the power of these explosives at that time, that.
Speaker 2 (24:13):
Was the fireworks.
Speaker 1 (24:14):
But yeah, so we again we are waiting on the
particulars of what exactly we know they were handling there
at the training facility. Three people killed. You've got everyone
weighing in on this, from the Attorney General Pambondi to
you know, various lawmakers or whatever, and what they say
means nothing. The FBI has responded to assist with the incident.
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Verureau of atf is that everyone is there because when
something like this happens, like we've mentioned, you also want
to make sure that there are no other explosives materials
connected to whatever this ordinance was or that is just
stored there that's vulnerable to any sort of detonation as well.
Speaker 3 (25:00):
Make sure that there's there's no threat outside of this.
We live in such a volatile time, especially with the
immediate circumstances surrounding immigration protests. The local law enforcement's role
in any federal immigration enforcement activity. It was just yesterday,
not even twenty four hours ago, in fact, that Sheriff
Robert Luna had to finally come out and talk to
the press about why the Sheriff's Department was handing over
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illegal immigrants to federal agents from the jails, a practice
that they had not engaged in for several years and
that was highly criticized by activists.
Speaker 1 (25:30):
Here we've talked about what an e fed up world
we live in. Just the fact that there are explosives
being handled at seven point thirty in the morning right
next to the ten there, that close proximity, you know,
brings up a number of questions that right now Sheriff's
officials are trying to iron out answers for with their
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pios and the like in terms of what we tell
the public in terms of what kind of fire power.
Quite legitimately we have stored at this location because of
people who want to be bad actors, because of their
nefarious intentions in some cases, unfortunately, that's just the world
we live in. To know that there are this type
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of firepower right there in a very heavily populated area
is probably something that the Sheriff's Department did.
Speaker 3 (26:20):
Not want us all to know about, and it's top
of mind now because we just went through the height
of fireworks season. I know we all live in parts
of the city perhaps where you hear them all year long,
but the height of the season is just passed, and
we saw tragedies, multiple tragedies here and around California, especially
up up closer to San Francisco and the Bay Area.
Just a terrible warehouse. We're hearing from folks in commerce
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in recent days that there is a warehouse there that
is vulnerable to that type of accident, that they don't
want those materials housed there. It's top of mind right now.
So you've got the fireworks thing top of mind, you've
got the ongoing tense battle over illegal immigration, and and
what you might ultimately have here is just a tragic accident.
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But with those things hanging in the background, there's going
to be many conversations we had about the safety and
the location of that facility.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
Right and the location if you're unfamiliar. Sometimes I get
too familiar because I've been out there countless times to
cover Sheriff's department things.
Speaker 2 (27:20):
This is if you're if you.
Speaker 1 (27:21):
Pass downtown, go in eastbound, you're on the ten and
it's right before you get to the seven ten is
where that that Sheriff's building is and so you know
it's Greater East LA. But Monterey Park is the area
I'm home of great dim sum ps.
Speaker 3 (27:34):
Yeah, they have a lot of great uh that's over
that way.
Speaker 1 (27:37):
Incredible, Okay, when we come back, we will stay on
top of its. Thank you Michael Monks for shedding all
the light that you have this morning and all of
the reporting you will continue to do throughout throughout the
day here on KFI News. We'll stay on top of this,
bring you to the press or Alive. In the meantime,
a lot of other news to get to today, including
the President threatening to sue the Wall Street Journal. He's
(27:59):
having field day with the media today, and details about
how Pam Bondi may release some Jeffrey Epstein information.
Speaker 2 (28:08):
Will have all that for you coming up next. You've
been listening to the Gary and Shannon Show.
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