The FBI has launched an investigation after an explosion at a training facility in southern California left multiple members of the Orange County Sheriff’s Department SWAT team hospitalized on Wednesday.
The officers had been undergoing a training course with the sheriff’s bomb squad when the blast occurred, Sgt. Frank Gonzalez told AP. The blast took place shortly before 1 PM, and the cause was not immediately clear, he said.
At least 16 officers required hospitalization, but the worst injury was a non-life-threatening leg wound that will require surgery. Two people sustained superficial wounds, while the rest suffered from black outs
The facility, located in a remote area of Irvine, south of Los Angeles, hosts firearms training and assessment for the FBI and local law enforcement. No FBI personnel were hurt in the incident, according to agency spokesperson Laura Eimiller.
It’s not a good feeling anytime an injury happens to anybody, including members of our own staff, said OCSD Sergeant Frank Gonzalez. The most severe injury that was sustained was one of our SWAT team members had a leg injury that is gonna require surgery.
Fifteen of the victims were taken to nearby hospitals by Orange County Fire Authority paramedics, while one person self-transported, the sheriff’s department said.
The incident occurred during a joint training exercise between the OCSD’s Bomb Squad and SWAT teams, the sheriff’s spokesperson said, and the explosion happened inside of a small building on the FBI property.
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They should have blown up the entire factory of career assassins and pedophiles long time ago?
Training for the days before or after the November elections?👀
They lowered the bar to get enough recruits… remember?
A serious life threatening explosion to several policemen under classroom conditions is extremely suspicious. Especially if origin is an explosive rather then gas. Clinton’s personal bodyguard was fagged entering 1st an upper story window of the compound in Waco Texas. The video clearly shows the agent behind threw in a grenade after he entered. The group entered after the expulsion N pretended the occupants of the compound killed him.