Firefighters injured in Wilmington truck explosion file lawsuit

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Seven firefighters injured when a burning truck exploded in Wilmington in February are suing the truck's owner and others.

When Los Angeles firefighters arrived at the scene of a vehicle fire earlier this year in Wilmington, they found a semi-truck fully engulfed in flames. But they were unaware that the truck was a ticking time bomb. Firefighters had positioned their vehicles around the fire that was burning two large compressed natural gas tanks that helped power the vehicle.

The subsequent explosion rattled the Wilmington neighborhood, with the blast sending up a plume of black smoke and a fireball large enough to damage a transformer on a nearby power line. Firefighters were knocked down by the explosion and some were badly burned, according to the complaint.

 

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