An explosion at a law enforcement training facility in Los Angeles has killed three people with the county sheriff’s department in the largest loss of life for the agency since 1857, the sheriff said on Friday morning.
The three deputies who were killed were members of the department’s arson explosives detail said Robert Luna, the sheriff, at a press conference. Authorities were still working to notify relatives of the deceased, he said, and details on the circumstances around the explosion were limited.
“There’s a lot more that we don’t know than what we do know, but our intent is to look at this from the very beginning and figure out what is it exactly that caused this tragic event,” Luna said.
Investigators do not believe there is any threat to the community.
The incident took place shortly after 7.30am on Friday when an explosion occurred at the department’s Special Enforcement Bureau, in the arson explosives detail facility in East Los Angeles. The three people killed had worked for the agency, collectively, for 74 years, Luna said.
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