A senior Los Angeles bomb technician raised serious concerns about overloading a containment chamber with homemade fireworks last year before the detonation caused a catastrophic explosion, injuring 27 people and rocking a neighborhood, according to an inspector general's report released Friday. Multiple times, “Bomb Technician C” told his squad about his worries ahead of the detonation. The bomb technicians made major miscalculations, federal investigators found, and loaded the containment chamber above the equipment’s safety rating.
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Report: LA bomb tech’s warnings ignored before explosion
