Talk about an explosive situation: Los Angeles firefighters are anxiously monitoring a warehouse filled with 75 tons of confiscated illegal fireworks sitting alongside 27 pallets of flammable hand sanitizer.
Authorities want to move the potentially deadly combination from the warehouse in Commerce, California, where it has been sitting since May, but say they need federal permission and assistance because of the risk. Federal officials told Los Angeles County firefighters they couldn’t move the fireworks until August, hauling them through Los Angeles in semitrucks.
“This is a recipe for disaster, and it needs to be dealt with immediately,” Los Angeles County Supervisor Janice Hahn said in a statement.
Officials are particularly anxious about the risk because an explosion July 1 at a fireworks facility in rural Esparto, California, killed seven people and ignited a brush fire in the Northern California town. And three LA County sheriff’s detectives were killed July 18 in an explosion at a training facility…