Update-LAPD Reporting Additional Explosions in CA(according to FOX News)

FOXNews | 05/24/02 | FOXNews

[The Magical Mischief Tour]

FOX News Alert just moments ago. Whole place was in flames!

[Yaelle]

They just announced on local news that this blast seems to be an accident. Maybe a gas leak.

[Maven]

yes, I heard the caller, and he said the neighborhood is Jews and Arabs.....

Encino is about 60-70% Jewish - including Iranian Jews who look Arab (but aren't). Not that many Arabs living there.

It's a very affluent area - filled with doctors, lawyers and entertainment industry people.

My office is about 2 miles east of the explosion. Ambulances have been coming and going all day.

Maven

[Flyer]

Click it or Ticket is nationwide. What a [expletive deleted] waste of resources.

[Maven]

Remember there's oil and natural gas naturally occurring in the LA Basin area. About ten years ago the sidewalk outside a Ross clothing store in the La Brea area around the Mid-Wilshire neighborhood in Los Angeles ignited because of gas seeping up naturally. Might naturally occurring natural gas provide an explanation for this explosion?

The problem with that theory is that the Valley is not the Basin area - no naturally occurring NG there. The Ross explosion and fire was in the Fairfax/Miracle Mile area, about 15 miles from Encino, and over the hills. The Miracle Mile is where the La Brea Tar Pits is located.

Maven

[maxwellp]

In another place, yes, they could be looking for other things. But this is a section of New York State consisting of small villages where everyone knows everyone else - no swarthy looking types here. The cops were looking for money here today.

[maxwellp]

$86! My husband, some months ago, driving without his seat belt, was fined $50. And I thought New York State was bad.

[Maven]

I've lived in LA all my life. EVERYONE here has natural gas.

That's not true. Many apartment buildings constructed in the 1960s through mid 1970s are all electric, particularly in the Valley. Both my apartment building and my parents' condo building are electric.

Maven

[Ingtar]

I would guess that the FBI would be sent due to the warning they issued. They would likely investigate any explosion in an area they warned, even if witnesses could say what happened.

[cake_crumb]

Just got to this thread about twenty-five minutes ago, and I don't know if anyone is still posting to it. I don't know WHAT type of circumstances caused the explosion, though I'm leaning toward NG/LP of some type.

I would like to say this though...I read things on FR that lead me to believe there are quite a few people here who know their stuff about explosive materials.

I'm only up to reply #449, and I apologize in advance if anyone beats me to this but...

Might I suggest that we start keeping some of the more obvious ingredients around our homes under lock and key?

[mr1776]

the san fernando valley is crawling with persians

[mr1776]

well, there is no need to make this thread any longer. obviously it was a terrorist bomb and will be covered up by the FBI, the CIA, Art Bell and Michael Rivero to look like a gas leak.

Or a NRA members house.

[Ramius]

You know Bush knew about this way in advance. I wonder why he didn't tell us?

hehehe... But he did. Just last week.

[terilyn]

Well it sounds like you are both pretty close to me. So let's keep the new Home Depot, and Arne, could you please FReepmail me your location on the 4th of July? I think I'll go the other way LOL!

[Redbob]

"The Nannystate is breading wimps."

Well, if not wimps, at least it's breeding the spelling-impaired!

[Redbob]

"Hey, gotta make the month's budget quota. Tickets are a major source of state income; catching terrorists isn't. There is no money in catching terrorists."

And besides, unlike terrorists, the unbelted don't shoot back, doncha know!

[Denver Ditdat]

How many train derailments is the statistical average? What constitutes a "major" derailment?

Some interesting stats on train accidents over four years ending in 2001: Railroad Accidents/Incidents 1998-2001

[Salvation]

We're everywhere, we're everywhere!

What a news force we are!

[Howlin]

You know what else -- sometimes I read things on FR so far in advance of when it hits the airwaves, I get confused about WHEN I hear something. Sometimes it's like, "Huh, that's OLD news." Then I remember how HOT we are. :-)

[LenS]

the san fernando valley is crawling with persians

Two questions --
1. Is it just persians or are siamese also a problem?
2. Has anyone called animal control?

[Dr. Eckleburg]

It was no meth explosion. It was an upscale condominium complex filled with older people, many Jewish.

FWIW, tonight I happened to watch a news report from Sunday night I inadvertently taped following "X-Files." It said the FBI had sent letters to apartment managers throughout Los Angeles (they were reporting from Studio City, next to Encino).

The FBI alert (which was shown on the news report) said "to be on the look-out for suspicious people who might rent an apartment in order to place explosives in the building."