Massive fire at Compton industrial complex rips through structures, buses | ABC7

[@gino423]

Pallets don't start fires..Someone else does.

[@adueolav8333]

Insurance 🤔

[@sahilx8635]

Absolutely right, money 💵

[@JustRusting]

Homeless encampment does

[@TheOfficialKayy]

First thing I thought, but as a comment noted, it’s possible squatters accidentally started it.

[@H2VPROEternal]

Someone got fired.

[@johnsheetz6639]

Pallets, matresses, and diesel fuel.yeah thats not gonna go out anytimes soon.

[@Mindyourbusinessstalker]

It actually was out by 7

[@xpan195]

Sheetz? As in the gas station franchise?

[@johnsheetz6639]

@@xpan195 I wish my friend. I'm just a poor regular guy.

[@xpan195]

@@johnsheetz6639 damn, well im sure you can get a couple free drinks if you pretend to be a descendant lol- make the best of it!

[@johnsheetz6639]

@@xpan195 dang good idea

[@ryanroberts1104]

You can almost hear the insurance adjuster having a stroke...

[@leovaldez5017]

Lol! True!! Claims on the horizon!!

[@loganshotrod4x464]

depositions, attorneys, investigators, statements, years of litigation, possible fraud... what a mess... running around with a fire truck & a water hose sounds like a lot more fun.

[@latashawalker49]

Omg I know it's not funny but it was...🥰

[@AckzaTV]

but the guy who shorted the fire insurance stonk is making money, planning more fires lol

[@SocaNick]

There is more to this story. Pallets just don’t catch on fire like that. This is arson

[@chiefchief306]

ofcourse this is arson dis is detroit lol

[@selanryn5849]

Pallets burn EXTREMELY well.

[@jed-henrywitkowski6470]

@@chiefchief306 Compton, CA. Not Detroit, MI.

[@kevinbyrne4538]

Diesel fuel, foam rubber, and dry wood -- the arsonist's friends.

[@Ferreal92]

A palette yard next to a maintenance yard? What could possibly go wrong.

[@gerardpully762]

@Ramond Ferreal First your spelling. After that anything goes.

[@ryanroberts1104]

You're too dumb to understand what you are talking about.

[@firstlast9731]

Everything

[@naturalremedy8092]

Pallet

[@davem6685]

Surprised it’s not next to a dynamite factory beside a gasoline refinery across the street from a fertilizer factory

[@MrJohnnymarlboro]

Those are provost tour buses.... I wouldn’t park million dollar busses next to a pile of kindling

[@skrakaayyyyy_itzyostep]

*Prevost Coach Buses

[@kerr2574]

The drivers care less.

[@patmcbride9853]

I would if Covid restrictions kept me from making money by using them and I had them well insured.

[@Perich29]

Driver doesn't have control of it, they park where there told to park the busses, we park our trucks and trailers near stack pallets in Tempe yard.

[@kimtankersley6521]

They were provost tour coaches. Now they’re scrap

[@pimisi]

This is sad. However, can someone not move those buses that have not yet been consumed? Like the one on the lower left, etc. That would save money and at the same time remove fuel from the path of the fire.

[@Rich-ni2ol]

Would you try to save anything knowing that insurance would replace it with brand new equipment?

[@moonpaints4090]

Maybe they were not able to move them due to them being broken down? But it could be insurance reasons. Replacing a bus is a lot easier than replacing a human.

[@geridamas935]

1:18

[@omidMPG]

In this country they don’t care about this stuff... they just send the list to the insurance and ask for the check...

[@jeffreybalkaran7416]

They will rather watch it burn trust me

[@blackwatertrs]

Looks fishy, a couple million dollars worth of busses burning when tourism is down... 🤔

[@kyleklmondwa9042]

No kidding you see how BADLY those buses were up in flames, imagine how long that Fire would have been spreading to catch those buses on fire like that.

[@joeyork9891]

Couple million lol Each new bus go's for 800,000

[@blackwatertrs]

@@joeyork9891 😄

[@tammystewart10]

Electric busses in the making

[@jemimychannel7893]

Yeah... Hotel burning, resort being robbed hmmm what else they can 'do' to survive? Hmmm

[@evonnechi7029]

Palettes do not start burning by themselves. They require human intervention.

[@Mr.Gundam7]

Someone did hated this company 😂

[@raymondj8768]

YOU GOT THAT RITE !

[@evonnechi7029]

@Charles Douglas really? concrete explodes when it gets too hot? I did not know that. Do you know what temperature triggers the explosion?

[@evonnechi7029]

@Charles Douglas oh, I just validated that concrete will explode once it is heated to 1112 degrees Fahrenheit. Wow. Very interesting.

[@evonnechi7029]

@Charles Douglas what a shock that must have been. It would have been totally unexpected too.

[@VillaSpark_grower]

The business owner warned the city months ago, that the homeless behind his building would do this. The city just laughed at him..

[@buggiesmama11]

Do they know what started it?

[@fbbWaddell]

@@buggiesmama11 I doubt it, but it's never a good idea to have people camped out around motor vehicles. Someone is gonna smoke a cigarette and blow everybody up....of course, this could also be a murder cover up but we will see what they find out in the end.

[@Lauren-vd4qe]

the insurance company could sue the city if the property owner has any hard proof he has warned the city several times about the homeless people near the property.

[@tomsmock7674]

Follow the money

[@couchprincess698]

Omg. No way. 😢😢😢

[@iltifaat-yousuf]

2020 was just a trailer .

[@swedeheart214]

Too funny and too sad at the same time.

[@NickyD]

yep this year is the movie 2022 is the ending credits

[@leyrua]

@@NickyD 2023 will be the crappy sequel. 2024 will be the even worse _remake._

[@bloodycheeseinsidemyass]

Just a fire

[@jennypotts2008]

Period 😳

[@ananthasrikara1167]

The smoke in the sky looked like a nuclear cloud mushroom.

[@Zeevuhl]

@@prakashpandey4646 Your*

[@desire2143]

@Jimolee's YT nuts deez

[@firstlast9731]

it does indeed

[@Mrlopez-tg2nz]

@Jimolee's YT deez nuts

[@thepharcyde5239]

None of us would be around to see such a cloud...😁

[@erikhaack4123]

I don't know but these fires are like being intentionally set.

[@SoloPilot6]

Posters asking why they didn't move the coaches: A), the fires started long before sunrise, so there probably wasn't anyone around. B), the coaches need a minimum of 70 psi air pressure to unlock the parking brakes. It can take 5 minutes to build air, because there are not only brakes, but also air-bag suspension and air tanks that have to be filled. C), if someone had seen the fire start and wanted to move coaches, they might have to first know which coaches to get keys for, then get the keys, use the right key for each coach, then start. While one coach builds air, they could repeat the process for the next coach, then the next, etc. This assumes that the coaches' "Front/Off/Rear" switches weren't set to lock out the driver's start switch (which a lot of companies in California do when parking coaches overnight, to make them harder to steal). D), pallet yard fires are HOT, so it would likely have been impossible for anyone to get into the coaches by the time the fire department arrived, and the fire depart would probably keep people out after that.

[@lovejoy924]

Blessings to the Firefighters fighting this blaze.

[@carmenschumann826]

. . . imagine there's no fire - what should all these many professional heroes do ?

[@sylvesterstewart868]

Looks like their letting it burn.

[@sethjames9984]

@@carmenschumann826 dude, what is your problem against them?

[@carmenschumann826]

@@sethjames9984 . . . didn't mention any problem, just asking . . . lilmthrfckr (btw: problem with, not against !)

[@Dagreenberg68]

Straight outa Compton, straight outa the tour bus.

[@davidca96]

(makes 90's gang signs)

[@normhienn1881]

“Outta”

[@jennypotts2008]

🤣🤣🤣🤦🏽‍♀️

[@nolan8289]

@@normhienn1881 tbh there is no right or wrong way of spelling a word that doesn't exist.🤣🤣🤣

[@shawnbrownfield9857]

Looks like a insurance claim...."ahh just let it burn"

[@ishmyboy]

"we just hate to see that" lol dont lie, your loving this, means more viewers and some excitement

[@j.jcevering5117]

And an opportune distraction

[@spiritwolfsmallwood2024]

A fricken disaster set by some stupid person with no life!!! And No! We are NOT loving this...So get it right.

[@jerryleroy9187]

@@spiritwolfsmallwood2024 The person you are commenting to meant the News station is Loving this for the ratings. Not us. Read it again after you watch it again. GET IT RIGHT!

[@caseystjames32]

As a professional retired FF all I have to say is WOW, glad I’m not there.

[@kellymeadows353]

Former volunteer FF glad she ain't there either!

[@rkgsd]

Pallets stacked 20 feet high? Seems like a safety issue a fire marshall would red flag. Plus, OSHA rules state pallets can be stacked no higher than 15 feet so I'd expect big fines and perhaps a lawsuit by the bus yard.

[@Splexsychiick]

Doesnt seem like a safety issue. Its pallets... they are meant to be stacked.

[@txtowing9594]

As long as the pallets are strapped down they ain’t going anywhere.

[@bobroberts2371]

Is that 15 ft for inside a structure or outside?

[@Primalxbeast]

@@txtowing9594 It's dry wood with lots of air space, oxygen and fuel, exactly what a fire needs to grow. It's perfect kindling.

[@rkgsd]

@@bobroberts2371 15ft high inside or out but a forklift must be used to stack them higher-end than 6ft.

[@johnk815]

I’m not a treehugger but I’m praying for the environment. Geez. The pollutants must be horrific.

[@jasonlacroix6083]

I think those buses are totally organic. Not sure about the pallets though.

[@AquaTech225]

By time that shit spreads out through the air isn’t really much in the grand scheme of things.

[@SSsmith24]

@@jasonlacroix6083 What is a organic Bus? I’ve Never heard of that, Those 2 words together?

[@donovan3152]

@@jasonlacroix6083 electric buses still bad especially the battery

[@jasonlacroix6083]

Buses have been made out of bamboo and used cooking oil for years. Since 2004, I think.

[@cdocker3070]

The average motorcoach cost $300,000 base, that was 8 of them engulfed in the fire that I could see, that's gonna be a big insurance check

[@daquanmcdonald7104]

Only to replace them with the same number

[@YedolfWesler]

I thought they closer to a million?

[@kansasthunderman1]

You got that right. Covid is causing a lot of businesses to go bankrupt. I wonder if the owners torched the place for the insurance money?

[@Acadian.FrenchFry]

I thought these were closer to a million each?

[@imchris5000]

lol insurance is not going to pay anything the owner of the buses just sat idle while a huge fire was devolving instead of just moving the buses

[@stevedoubleu99B]

Buses/coaches are very problematic when parked in any yard. They need to be parked close to fit in, but this unfortunately makes it very difficult/impossible for firefighters to access. Coupled with the fact that they are made of highly combustible materials means the outcome is usually bad. We had a fire in our coach yard in the UK, and lost about ten vehicles. Horrible.

[@NikosAnimals]

ouch, did the insurance pay up question

[@Jean-ni6of]

I hope the cause of this is found and reported to the rest of the world.

[@seankingwell3692]

wonder if a realistic affordable solution could be to have sprinklers on a metal frame overhanging the parking lanes, or a roof structure similar to gas stations with fire suppression systems. Making a fully enclosed structure would just make fires worse and they can't just make the buses take up extra room and like you said difficult to access in a fire.

[@thomaslowe4774]

I was there, even across the street the heat was oppressive. Absolutely mesmerizing watching and hearing it.

[@YooB1]

Wow this sucks hopefully no one gets hurt. Shoutout to all firefighters 🚒 I appreciate what you do

[@michaelfraley3975]

Have and got insurance

[@joeschlotthauer840]

This is where helicopter water tankers are needed...

[@joeschlotthauer840]

@@aoife984 *It will take days and millions in property damage, before it's extinguished...*

[@marshalljulie3676]

@@joeschlotthauer840 I know right they should have call for more back up its been burning for 2 hours could have called in the choppers or more trucks

[@jesuscarrasco5843]

LAFD... OVERGLORIFIED water wasters experts in total losses.. so much equipment to use yet fires mostly win.

[@TheDustysix]

Watch the video SUV hit by water drop.

[@JungleYT]

Exactly... We're doomed as a city if this is the best our so-called "Fire fighters" can do? Where are the air tankers???

[@jeffreya8329]

Looks like insurance job to me 🤔

[@atebagreen673]

First thought that came to mind when I saw this 💯💯💯💯

[@christinagaller4374]

why would insurance company do this?

[@atebagreen673]

@@christinagaller4374 the insurance company didn't do it someone did it so they can get the money from the insurance company

[@christinagaller4374]

@@atebagreen673 oh yeah I knew that they are gonna claim their insurance for the damage. The way he put it, I thought he meant the fire job was done by the insurance company.

[@atebagreen673]

@@christinagaller4374 no that fire was set by someone who the owner knows ...if you look to the far right of the video how the hell did fire get over there it's like it jumped 30 feet

[@wyoung7523]

when the fire started, why did they not pull or drive those bus's out of the way?

[@dimaisatree]

Probably cause all the workers evacuated as soon as the fire started and the fire fights couldn’t move the busses themselves and didn’t want to put the workers in danger by asking them to start moving the busses. Just my guess

[@redbug3777]

@@dimaisatree --- No workers at first because it was 7am. Then they moved several but not the big row!

[@grandpa5508]

These are off duty busses, drivers away probably.

[@ZombieXtreme84]

I’ll move them give me the keys can’t be that hard to turn a key and hit the Gas pedal

[@dennisreid9039]

@@ZombieXtreme84 you can't just move commercial vehicles with air brakes. If the have been sitting there inoperable you first have to let the air compressor fill the air tanks to release the brakes which could take at least 5 minutes

[@rockinhorsefeathers8100]

Who the hell has an expensive bus yard next to a pallet yard in Compton?

[@tomhairston9557]

Praying for my brother firefighters!!

[@carmenschumann826]

. . . doesn't help them !

[@jaytee2642]

@@carmenschumann826 Doesn't hurt them, either!! 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

[@carmenschumann826]

@@jaytee2642 . . . true !

[@343ralph9]

Yes my brother. Praying for them

[@TheRamos53]

This old man commenting on the fire has no idea what he’s saying

[@jasonlacroix6083]

That's why they have him on the news.

[@dalethelander3781]

Both Scott "Skylord" Reiff and Mark Cotta Robles are that old.

[@Rich-ke7sq]

You think you can do better? I don’t think he was that bad

[@firstlast9731]

I don't get it

[@jennypotts2008]

🤦🏽‍♀️🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@samiam9059]

Shame on whomever started this. Where I live the last at least 2 years some are starting terrible fires all the time now. Never had that in the last 20 years. That particulate will fall eventually somewhere.

[@HappyHarryHardon]

Are you the firebug?

[@samiam9059]

@@HappyHarryHardon your an idiot

[@ryanroberts1104]

@@samiam9059 I don't even know how to describe how stupid your post is.

[@85square]

Where I live an arsonist burnt down an old church.

[@samiam9059]

@@ryanroberts1104 ignorant, blogging is not the proper therapy for you. See that all the time with some. best regards

[@tinaleelaurie6427]

That is so awful. I live on the East Coast and my heart goes out to all the Fire Fighters that had to deal with trying to put that fire out. Is there any update on how long it took to get it under control or any update at all?

[@eskudosal]

Crazy I can only imagine how much one buss cost to replace

[@PlayhouseRage]

OWNERS: Its OK we're in good hands with ALL-STATE ALLSTATE INSPECTORS: not so fast bro..I smell fraud-fuel

[@savingfallenstars1613]

Exactly! Those tour buses didn't make money for a whole year. Insurance money???

[@chrisalfaro8757]

Hahaha so what let them get there money that’s why we pay fuckin insurance so much money

[@speedyme200]

Like a good neighbor, State Farm is....

[@williamthompson7162]

This is a fire where helo drops would knock down much of it to give ground crews some time to get engines and hoses in place. Why don't they ever use them?

[@mrwilson4909]

i hear politicians are calling this a "climate change" related issue

[@VS-et4pn]

I hear you're a massive moron

[@mrwilson4909]

i was being sarcastic if anyone thought different.

[@labrd41]

@@VS-et4pn I think your underwear is too tight.

[@KCsFunHouse]

My goodness I hope everyone fighting this fire stays safe

[@jamescoleridge7368]

Sorry u tube but this should be in HISTORY

[@mynameisnotcory]

Looks like the tour buses had gas poured on them. They dont burn like that easily

[@fbbWaddell]

I was thinking the same thing. They normally blow up...

[@Rich-ke7sq]

A lot of plastic on newer busses. Fire spreads very fast.

[@ptaylor4923]

Uh... yeah, there's a ton of flammable material on a bus

[@gm5468]

Government did it

[@robertborchert932]

Look closely at the right side of the video. You have a "finger" of fire progression. Best guess is it's a fuel fire, fed from one of the closer buses. That row of buses was involved in rapid succession. Time for a foam party.

[@johnnytdufc]

From the overhead shot, it appears the fire started at the Pallets and it's really hard to conceive of how an accidental fire could be started in a yard literally set up as a gigantic bonfire. I suspect that someone at the bus company may have started it in the bonfire prepared within feet of their buses packed side to side, but because the bus co. couldn't operate in LA, they may have been behind on their premiums. Though I hope insurance covers those buses. Pallets are easy to replace. Toxins from the upholstery and plastics are nasty. A water drop would be helpful on the buses and pallets, maybe many, but overhead lines may prevent their use and fire retardant can't generally be used in inhabited/inner city areas. Having said all that, this fire, as nearly all industrial fires, are the result of at least Negligence.

[@davidlape3325]

Thank you first responders. Stay safe and blessed out there.

[@sherloidbai7064]

Sad to see so many beautiful coaches destroyed.

[@davidtosh7200]

Good thing the fire destroyed about 12 buses instead of the oil refinery, and it could be worst.

[@grimmjow714]

Insurance fraud

[@garyeger4622]

Move the buses that aren’t on fire out of the way

[@patrickgibson4148]

Just what I was thinking when watching the video! a lot could have been saved

[@skrakaayyyyy_itzyostep]

As a Train/Bus Enthusiast, this is painful as fuck to watch.

[@cindycreateforlife]

Your language skills are something.

[@CRFProductions2023]

Man the pain is real 😭😭

[@coyotesmile8972]

I'm a pallet enthusiast.... I got way more in this than you.

[@theunitedkingdom5202]

As a British citizen this is a pretty big fire shoutout to emergency workers across the world!

[@vinnylenci7311]

If you sanded a wood floor that had an oil finish, that sawdust will combust if your looking to start a fire on pallets and hide evidence dump that sawdust there

[@Juanito_Peligroso]

All it takes is one tweeker with a lighter.

[@speedy01247]

Let's look at the evidence before we drop blame (by we I mean the police and fire department). There are plenty of possibilities, from tweeker, to homeless, to insurance fraud to accident. (I have no idea what a tweeker is)

[@delaineyjohnson8238]

@@speedy01247 Speedy doesn't know what a tweeker is?? Right.

[@mannyechaluce3814]

@@speedy01247 You are a tweeker

[@mooseandsquirrel9887]

Hmmmm........I wonder how financially stable that company was......those busses look fairly new......

[@andromeda9340]

Those things cost a million each💀😬

[@cpgone]

@@andromeda9340 no they dont. 150,000 maybe

[@Dwightstjohn-fo8ki]

@@cpgone 150 won't buy you the INTERIOR of those coaches, but usually they're leased.

[@Dwightstjohn-fo8ki]

Buses are almost always leased for liability reasons. You have your running "Rights" in a different corporation, your vehicles leased, and your contracts separate. That way if you get sued, they sue a corp. with no assets. But these buses had no business being stored in Compton, of all places. Storage is in the desert, dry, out of area where you're not exposed to people and vandalism.

[@cpgone]

@@Dwightstjohn-fo8ki nwbus.com/inventory/coach-buses-for-sale/2012-mci-j4500-56-passenger-motorcoach-c66043/ and since they are parked in compton they are even more used and ratty.

[@oshi8994]

Wow! I don't think I've ever seen a fire take out several blocks. Millions of dollars lost.

[@jasonlacroix6083]

You must have missed the Rodney King incident in 1991. It makes this look like a campfire.

[@DutchRailsRBX]

this is really sad because if you see all that smoke oof all that smoke is killing the envaiorment

[@genevawiltshire2554]

Wow,the fire pressure is not strong enough, as long as no body gets hurt, every thing else can replace

[@chinutgonzalez565]

California cant seem to catch a break keeping you all in my prayers everyone please stay safe

[@LilyandOllieTv]

California's not going to catch a break that's going to go up in flames the Bible says remember the city of Sodom and Gomorrah that's basically what it is Colorado's next!

[@Acadian.FrenchFry]

@@LilyandOllieTv Love that you all judge California, but yet seem to forget this entire country is in rebellion and is bringing judgment. Everyone is next. Repent and get right with Jesus.

[@Tazz77]

California, the same state that wants to ban the Bible and legalize pedophilia.

[@LilyandOllieTv]

@@Acadian.FrenchFry oh believe me I'm a preacher's boy California isn't a list of sin from day one accepting transsexuals and etcetera of gay sex Marriage so is Colorado yes this country is basically what Revelation talks about the shining City on the hill! Basically the USA is Sodom and Gomorrah! This government and this Joe Biden cabinet is a joke from the fact of wanting to give too much leverage to the black community feeling that they're entitled to more rights when honestly they're not entitled to anything they already got their freedom they have the equal rights as everyone else does! What they got to do is start acting like human beings and US citizens and get their butts back to work like everyone else and stop thinking that they're entitled to restitution because they're not the one who are entitled to restitution are the native Americans Indians they are the ones that I've gotten the bad end of the stick and they continue getting the bad end of the stick! native American Indians do not have equal rights and it's disgusting and prerogative that people say they're just a bunch of drunks no they're not!!!have you been to a native American reservation have you seen the property that's there majority of the people don't have proper running electricity or water and a water truck has to come once a week and deliver water and if the truck breaks down nobody gets water!

[@delaineyjohnson8238]

IT's because of the stupid asses living here. That shit ain't climate.

[@mkrp4]

Tourist buses are gone (I could be wrong, but I am suspecting insurance fraud)

[@libiure]

a pallet yard next to a bus yard - that's some bad planning ...

[@dalethelander3781]

Word, sister.

[@3yearsago287]

No it could be homeless people camping next to businesses. This has been a problem. I hope the business owner use this as a defense

[@stevefox3763]

Here in the UK, about 10 years ago we had an oil depot go up, the smoke produced a cloud something like 5 miles wide and 70 miles long, it turned day to night and could be seen from space. Explosions blew out windows as far away as 5 miles, it was insane! Another one which produced a huge smoke cloud happened a few years ago when a tyre recycling facility caught fire, not as big as the oil depot but still massive.

[@almilhouse9059]

I always wonder why buses are parked so tight to eachother, yes I understand space but that beyond ridiculous when one can take out so many others, if gaps were left it may actually safe many. Surprised insurance companies, fire personal etc don't get onto them about it. In Dublin, the buses are parked on top of eachother, have the time can't even get into them they're that close.

[@hankcallaghan6785]

Arson ?

[@DavidVonR]

2021 is turning out to be a bus and a pallet fire of a year

[@whiqeddik7615]

Well, I guess it was just wishful thinking that the dark cloud was a rain cloud scout. Fuck man,

[@claudiaholmes9086]

There's definently a back story to this...

[@millwrightdad3753]

It’s not transformers blowing up it’s the fuses popping. They make a loud bang and arc like crazy

[@brickit26]

Call in an air drop, Use the resources they have and it would be out.

[@delaineyjohnson8238]

As if the city of Compton has that sort of money to foot the bill. Your city residents are broke ass poor taxes aren't much and the city probably doesn't have enough to pay for large resources. That why ghettos suck.

[@terrellroyal221]

Not those beautiful Prevost!!😥😥 bus lives matter😥

[@cristhianperez1216]

😵😵😵😵HOPE. EVERYONE IS OKAY. 😵😵😵😵😵😵SO SAD TO SEE🙌

[@raymondmoya4001]

@ha ha toxic minded?

[@Leonard_MT]

@ha ha hi troll

[@Erin-Thor]

@ha ha - True, we watch this in horror, watch the flames and think OMG! But we are also compassionate, such loss. I was hoping no one was hurt, and that transportation company has insurance. This saddens us, myself included yet you are gleeful and wish ‘more shit blew up!’ What does that say about you?

[@Erin-Thor]

@ha ha - Clearly I must be. If you think wanting to see “hundreds of thousands dead” makes you a better man, I’ll wear the “Pussy” name proudly.

[@raymondmoya4001]

@ha ha coming from a 10 year old ! Grow some ballss kid !

[@Uftonwood2]

So the business owner, knowing his premises were in a high fire risk area failed to do a risk assessment which would have led to the method of parking the buses being such that any fire would be limited to a few buses. Perhaps the insurance company will reimburse him for the few buses he might have lost but not the many his negligence allowed to burn.

[@Dutch3DMaster]

Well, it seems bus depots are built next to wood or pallet processing plants in the US as well...we have had a couple of fires in The Netherlands that reached a second-hand bus depot this way as well. I will say I'm surprised to see just 2 trucks doing something for a fire this size, but that said: we typically don't have overhead powerlines in my country so I can understand wanting to back off when powerlines are starting falling down and sparking.... To bad about the buses...sucks seeing them go up in flames like that.

[@tammycrytser9058]

Insurance money???? We all know your buses business has suffered terriblely thanks to covid

[@andrewdaley3081]

Exactly what i thought. Andy England 🇬🇧👍

[@AquaTech225]

When it started. Why wouldn’t one start pulling busses out of there. Or Atleast put a couple gaps between the fire an the bus. They should of got on that right from the get go

[@rumcakes2]

You would think thats the 1st thing ppl would do right? 🤦🏾 Ppl dont think sometimes. Youre the 1st comment that had the same idea as me!

[@ptaylor4923]

Well... if it started at 4:30 or 5:00 in the morning... how many people from the bus company would have been there and hiw many there could drive a bus? Of course if you'd been there I'm sure you would have jumped right in and gotten them all out... but not all of us are gifted

[@tbreeze415]

Because it can take a few minutes to start a bus. Any commercial vehicle with air brakes has to build up air pressure. That can take several minutes.

[@ptaylor4923]

@Buttercup How old are you? Six?

[@AquaTech225]

We gonna base this off of industrial sites. In an industrial setting to do anything that consist of even making a spark a hot work permit is needed. Which definitely wasn’t here and requires a fire watch. And after the job is completed that fire watch supposed to remain there for another hour. To ensure nothing received a spark and eventually lights up. Just 1 hour an this is in chemical plants ect where a fire can be a really serious thing. Not just a bus yard. An I’m sure for places like that. An them choosing an hour was based off study and history because of the level of danger one of them places exploding for the workers and community’s all around for many a miles. So it’s someone standing by for an hour. Which tells me. At some point in that night. Some worker or workers was there. Working on something at 3:30-430 at the earliest if not closer to time of ignition. Or it was intentionally light on fire. As far as busses. A bus drives like a car. Only a simp couldn’t move one. There’s no Manuel transmission. Let the glow plugs do there thing an crank it up an put the thing in drive press gas. And save them all? Yeah right. Had it been early on by competent workers. 2-3 of the closest buses could of been moved and at then may of been enough to keep the fires from the buses and they may of been there to only put pallets out. The busses burning is the fuel there really struggling to put out. And if that was purchased by whoever as a fleet they probably would of only needed one key. If it was bought from a fleet package their usually keyed alike. Same with cop cars

[@FeloniousBitcoin]

Why are people paying taxes when this is clearly caused by someone and the response isn’t making any difference...

[@aerogrape]

That looked like a nuclear explosion from a distance, wow

[@БруноБуччелати-н6б]

A MASSIVE WHAT??

[@liveakiyamareaction]

Yakuza 6: The Song of Life

[@dopey473]

Goddamnit I knew it

[@mistye8485]

Praying for all the firefighters safety and that this gets contained 🥺🙏❤️

[@ndubanesol111]

This is rather unfair for the poor fire fighters, their preparedness is nowhere close to be able to kill this fire. 3fire engines for such massive 🔥

[@Brian13549]

I think there's more then 3 fire trucks

[@ptaylor4923]

You see 3 trucks and assume there are 3 trucks. Reality is very different.

[@BenLA5]

Im not even Murican, but I just like how horrifyingly action packed it is

[@MsPrice-pn2py]

Everyday it's some bullshit 🤦‍♀️

[@marthayoung2308]

Does anyone find it odd that the fire skipped over a few buses IN THE MIDDLE??? Fire on both sides, but not in the middle!

[@bigtexas7580]

*These new Prevost buses cost over $1 million each so that's a serious insurance claim and will really come through at a time when tourism and sales are down. Or maybe a pissed off employee at the pallet company next door set the fire, either way the bus company is about to be paid some serious money. **3:52** Money To Burn.*

[@____tothe]

Why can’t they pick a better person to say all this I can’t focus when that guy talks like that😩

[@yungmetro4889]

These buses on fireeeeee! These buses on fireeeeeee.... in Alicia Key’s voice

[@Davehash]

Insurance hit. Somebody was losing $$ and needed an injection.

[@damien8316]

Or they saw the outcome down the line n new they were guna be fukd so do it before u start going bankrupt to look legit 😆

[@Dmpsmth]

At one point it looked like a volcano ngl I hope everyone was ok

[@scottcol23]

I grew up next to a massive pallet yard. They had a mountain of damaged pallets easily 60ft hight and 200ft long. I always hoped that it wouldnt catch fire.

[@alfredoalcantar8691]

Yesterday was richland hills recycling facility

[@angli232]

Tour bus owner burn it down and claiming his insurance company!

[@24Deee]

No actually due to the amount of homeless we have here in Compton there are fires every other month. Sad but true.

[@ptaylor4923]

And now he can sue you

[@speedy01247]

Ever consider holding off blame till we have evidence? (We can't just decide who is to blame before looking at the evidence)

[@KarleneE]

I'm in Canada, but COVID is hard enough for businesses, never mind a huge fire too! Sending strength to the first responders! I hope all the businesses survive and can rebuild.

[@garybaines6442]

I know, this would never happen in Canada, our bus drivers and admin aren’t careless and negligent, unlike Compton type bus employees…..

[@octane8267]

They could have moved those busses if they wanted to before it reached the busses; sounds like an inside job. Tourism down? do the maths?

[@CEOkiller]

Time to get straight outta Compton!

[@tuff47]

Domestic terrorism? Mass transport vehicles. If this was arson, why did they choose a mass transport facility? Just sayin'.......

[@russelmurray9268]

We got some real firefighters up here in NorCal if you want that fire put out

[@nanallen1]

Fire season is early - and we do not even need trees. Hmmmm.

[@MartinPHE]

forget the expensive things SAVE THE PALLETS.. Meanwhile Bus tires EXPLODING.. Ignore the fire running the fence into other expensive businesses, SAVE THE PALLETS.

[@mrrobertwolfiii1079]

Airmen could got achievement awards for firewings.

[@cob705]

Some companies gonna enjoy some nice Tax-writeoffs & nice Insurance Payouts 🤣

[@jasonlacroix6083]

And, everybody else will enjoy some nice premium increases.

[@terrelmchenry9524]

THE INSURANCE COMPANY WILL DROP THEM.

[@artiebucco1307]

Good, now let the rest of Southern California go up in flames with it.

[@johnnypotseed1700]

That smoke looks like there's a fuking tornado over Compton shitt

[@cutebutsadisticable]

You clearly have never watched super cells form or watch as tornadoes touch down. They look nothing like that, trust me. Nothing at all like that.

[@johnnypotseed1700]

@@cutebutsadisticable actually I am a first responder I made a comment because the smoke look like a funnel cloud I've been on more fires more natural disasters than you could ever imagine 11 years as a public servant

[@cutebutsadisticable]

@@johnnypotseed1700 just because you're a first responder doesn't mean you're an expert on weather or weather issues. I'm talking from first hand experience here. I'm no full blown, college degree carring expert but I have watched them form and touch down. No disrespect to first responders, I'm trained as one and my kids' father is a fireman/paramedic.

[@johnnypotseed1700]

@@cutebutsadisticable fire science program means I actually fight fires you are a dumbass your college doesn't mean s*** in the real world

[@johnnypotseed1700]

@@cutebutsadisticable and another thing your college education from Brown when it do you s*** in the world world the education I got before I joined and started doing public service to save assholes like you what's on the streets ghetto Eastside Bakersfield so believe me you want to be bragging about your college education from Brown guarantee you that brings you a nice paycheck want me to hustle you and take every dime you'll ever have

[@tutuyou6269]

This fire is not a accident Insurance company must do a real investigation

[@elrioviolino3549]

A whole fleet of fancy buses parked right next to mountains of wooden pallets??? Gee, what could possibly go wrong? I agree with most conclusions here: this was arson at some level....not necessarily "insurance fraud".