{"id":82374,"date":"2025-12-05T05:23:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T05:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/82374\/"},"modified":"2025-12-05T05:23:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T05:23:08","slug":"fireworks-explosion-kills-teen-in-south-los-angeles-officials-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/82374\/","title":{"rendered":"Fireworks explosion kills teen in South Los Angeles, officials say"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A 17-year-old boy died in an explosion ignited by fireworks Wednesday evening in South Los Angeles, according to authorities.<\/p>\n<p>The Los Angeles Police Department responded at around 9:26 p.m. to the 400 block of West 84th Street to a report of a male on fire, according to an <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/LAPDPIO\/status\/1996701367856222332\/photo\/1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">LAPD news release<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>The Los Angeles Fire Department also responded to the scene and began life-saving measures to an injured 17-year-old boy, according to department spokesperson Lyndsey Lantz. <\/p>\n<p>The teen was hospitalized and later pronounced dead, the LAPD release said. <\/p>\n<p>Members of the LAPD Bomb Squad, Hazardous Materials Unit and Major Crimes Division also arrived at the scene and seized a large amount of illegal pyrotechnic devices, which were transported to a storage location, according to the release. <\/p>\n<p>Lantz said the explosion resulted from fireworks but offered no further details about the accident. The LAPD is the lead agency investigating the case. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 17-year-old boy died in an explosion ignited by fireworks Wednesday evening in South Los Angeles, according to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":82375,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[46870,13856,46868,46875,46871,48,52,51,46873,46874,46869,47,50,49,3843,13549,3335,2489,2088,360,46872],"class_list":["post-82374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-17-year-old-boy","tag-accident","tag-firework-explosion","tag-further-detail","tag-hazardous-materials-unit","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-lantz","tag-lapd-bomb-squad","tag-lapd-news-release","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-los-angeles-police-department","tag-male","tag-official","tag-scene","tag-south-los-angeles","tag-teen","tag-west-84th-street"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82374\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}