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

[gino]

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

[johnsheetz]

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

[Ferreal]

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

[kevinbyrne]

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

[SocaNick]

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

[ryanroberts]

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

[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.

[ananthasrikara]

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

[blackwatertrs]

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

[evonnechi]

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

[MrJohnnymarlboro]

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

[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..

[erikhaack]

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

[SoloPilot]

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.

[YooB]

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

[shawnbrownfield]

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

[cdocker]

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

[thomaslowe]

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

[wyoung]

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

[lovejoy]

Blessings to the Firefighters fighting this blaze.