wrote<\/a> on social media. \u201cPlease pray for the families of the sheriff\u2019s deputies killed.\u201d<\/p>\nAt his midday news conference, Sheriff Luna said that details about the explosion were forthcoming as the investigation was only in its initial stages.<\/p>\n
\u201cAt this time, we do not know the cause of the explosion,\u201d Luna said. \u201cThere is no threat to this community. This is an isolated incident.\u201d<\/p>\n
Luna added that he is prioritising notifying the relatives of the victims before releasing further information to the public.<\/p>\n
He has met two of the three families so far, he said. \u201cAs you can imagine, those were extremely challenging conversations.\u201d<\/p>\n
The sheriff also thanked the bomb squad of the Los Angeles Police Department for helping to secure the blast site.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey immediately came out to assist after this explosion occurred to render the devices safe,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd just so all of you know, they were just rendered safe within the last minutes, right before we walked out here, so it was still an active scene. It wasn\u2019t stable and definitely a very active crime scene.\u201d<\/p>\n
He explained that investigators can only go on site now that there is no further risk of explosions.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s a lot more that we don\u2019t know than what we do know,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
Luna, however, was quick to defend the professionalism of the special enforcement bureau, calling its members \u201cthe best of the best\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe individuals who work our arsons explosives detail, they have years of training,\u201d Luna said. \u201cUsually, the average calls that they go to in dealing with some very dangerous situations or items average about 11,000 per year. So these aren\u2019t people who don\u2019t do this very often. They are fantastic experts. And unfortunately, I lost three of them today.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Los Angeles Sheriff Robert Luna said there is \u2018no threat to the community\u2019 after the deadly blast closed…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":73592,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5123],"tags":[1582,276,2961,224,5337,50,7207,67,72],"class_list":{"0":"post-73591","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","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-police","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-us-canada"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114876206689468394","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73591","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=73591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73591\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}