(18 Jul 2025)
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Los Angeles – 18 July 2025
1. Mid of Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputy standing near patrol car outside Internal Services Department
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Jason Zabala, Los Angeles Sheriff’s SWAT Deputy:
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"It’s something you realize from day one that when you’re signing up for the job, that you know it’s gonna be a dangerous job. As the years go on, you realize how dangerous it is. And it’s something that’s always in the back of your mind, but you do this job for a reason. You don’t really think about it day to day until something like this happens, and then you realize just how dangerous this really is. I know our families go through that. I know my family goes through that probably every day. But like I said, we truly like, love the work we do and we just, we don’t think about it every day. We just come to work, do our job and. Like I said, when something like this happens, it’s just a tragedy."
3. Mid of law enforcement officers near a sheriff’s vehicle
4. Mid of deputies
5. Mid of deputies
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Richard Pippin, president, Los Angeles Deputy Sheriff’s Association:
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"I understand all these people had 20 plus years on. This is not an assignment that you get to your first day or your first year, your first 10 years. These are some of our very best. Absolutely."
Reporter: "How do you even prepare for something like this?"
Pippin: "You don’t. You know, this highlights the need for training and investment in the sheriff’s department. For us to have the best possible facilities and training so that we get the best outcomes and not, obviously, today we’ve experienced the worst of all possible outcomes. So our guys are constantly training and working, and these guys were highly proficient with what they did. Like everyone, we’re waiting for answers to find out why we lost three of our brothers this morning."
7. Wide of police vehicles on the scene
STORYLINE:
A Friday blast at a Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department training facility killed three members of its arson and explosives unit, marking one of the department’s worst losses of life from a single incident, the sheriff said.
All three were veteran deputies. The department hasn’t said what they were doing at the time of the blast or what caused it.
Los Angeles County Sheriff Robert Luna said the arson and explosives team undergoes in-depth training and responds to more than 1,000 calls a year. The deputies had served 19, 22 and 33 years in the department, Luna said.
Jason Zabala, a deputy who is a member of the sheriff’s department SWAT team, called the deputies who died “the best of the best.”
“When you sign up for the job, you know it’s going to be a dangerous job. As the years goes on, you realize how dangerous it is,” he said.
An early line of investigation was looking at a possible training accident, according to a law enforcement official briefed on the matter who was not authorized to discuss it and spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity.
AP video by Eugene Garcia
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