LOS ANGELES, CA \u2014 A teen who died while handling what police said could have been homemade fireworks that exploded in the South Los Angeles neighborhood of Vermont Knolls was identified by county authorities Saturday.<\/p>\n
Alexander Arana, 17, was identified by the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner’s Office as the teen who died in the blast that occurred around 9:30 p.m. Wednesday in the 400 block of West 84th Street, west of the Harbor (110) Freeway.<\/p>\n
The teen is believed to have been handling pyrotechnic equipment that exploded, police said.<\/p>\n
Los Angeles Fire Department paramedics took the teen to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
Members of the LAPD Bomb Squad cleared the scene of the blast, “seizing a large quantity of illegal pyrotechnic devices and transporting all remaining explosive materials to a safe storage location,” according to a department statement.<\/p>\n
The LAPD’s Major Crimes Division was investigating the explosion and “the source of the illegal pyrotechnic materials that were seized from the residence.”<\/p>\n
Anyone with additional information regarding the fatal explosion or the illegal pyrotechnic materials and devices was urged to contact Major Crimes Division Detective Allen at 213-486-7260. Calls during non-business hours or weekends should be directed to 877-527-3247. Tipsters who prefer to remain anonymous can call Crime Stoppers at 800-222-8477 or visit lacrimestoppers.org.<\/p>\n
\u2014 City News Service<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LOS ANGELES, CA \u2014 A teen who died while handling what police said could have been homemade fireworks…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":433350,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5123],"tags":[1582,276,2961,224,5337],"class_list":{"0":"post-433349","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-california","10":"tag-la","11":"tag-los-angeles","12":"tag-losangeles"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=433349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433349\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/433350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=433349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}