As many as nine families were displaced in the South LA explosion, and many have not been able to return to their homes nearly 21 months after the incident. Now, several families are accusing LA City Council of threatening to kick
City Council of threatening to kick them out of their hotel rooms without any real work done to fix the damage.
The explosion happened nearly two years ago, in June 2021, on 27th Street in South Los Angeles near San Pedro Street, after the LAPD had confiscated thousands of pounds of illegal fireworks from a nearby home. An LAPD bomb squad decided to detonate the entire cache despitefrom an explosives expert who urged the team to break the cache up before detonation.
As many as nine families were displaced in the blast, and many have not been able to return to their homes nearly 21 months after the explosion. Some of the displaced families have been staying at the Level Hotel in"Trust us, we wish we didn't have to be here," said community leader Ron Gochez, speaking on behalf of the impacted residents.PREV. COVERAGE: It’s been one year since an accidental fireworks explosion forced families in South LA to evacuate.
Now the families say the city has told them they'll stop paying the bill by the end of June of this year, while "90% of their homes remain unrepaired and uninhabitable," according to lawyers representing the displaced families.
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