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- LAPD Medal for Heroism Detective III Arleigh Eugene McCree (December 24, 1939 – February 8, 1986) was the Commander of the Firearms and Explosives Unit of the Los Angeles Police Department and counter-terrorism specialist, widely recognized as one of the top explosive experts in the world.
Police tape at the scene of an LAPD bomb squad incident in 2021. (Al Seib / Los Angeles Times) At Los Angeles International Airport last spring, a dispatcher received an anonymous call suggesting ...
MarkV-A1 or Mark5-A1 is a bomb disposal robot designed by Northrop Grumman for the purpose of handling potential explosives without risking any lives. It is part of the Remotec ANDROS line, which includes other robotic EODs (Explosive Ordnance Disposal).
On June 30, 2021, an LAPD bomb disposal squad detonated confiscated illegal fireworks in a residential neighborhood, injuring 17 people, causing extensive damage to nearby houses, and destroying the LAPD's bomb disposal truck. The explosion reportedly occurred when the bomb squad significantly underestimated the weight of the fireworks that ...
Nearly two years after the LAPD bomb squad blew up a South L.A. neighborhood during the botched detonation of a cache of fireworks, officials announced their first disciplinary action.
The Los Angeles Police Department's bomb squad seized 38,000 pounds of illegal fireworks Wednesday from a warehouse in South Los Angeles. This time LAPD didn't blow up a South L.A. neighborhood ...
The first professional civilian bomb squad was established by Sir Vivian Dering Majendie. [1] As a Major in the Royal Artillery, Majendie investigated an explosion on 2 October 1874 in the Regent's Canal, when the barge 'Tilbury', carrying six barrels of petroleum and five tons of gunpowder, blew up, killing the crew and destroying Macclesfield Bridge and cages at nearby London Zoo.
City officials laid out $5 million in spending for the South Los Angeles community that was blown up in a failed fireworks detonation by the LAPD bomb squad last year.