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“And it jumped into the neighbors’ on that side, where they have buses, and … over 20 buses got burned,” Hernandez said. Then the mattress factory caught fire and it jumped onto this business, and it just started spreading like crazy. “And that fire jumped into the business behind us, and it jumped from that business to the mattress factory. “The homeless people that live in the alley, I guess they burn wood at night to keep warm,” Elias Hernandez said. “You see that second pole? It caught fire, and that’s when it fell and it just started catching fire from there … and it just started jumping all over the place.”
“They burn their food and they cook,” Hernandez said. Sex offenders accused of killing 4 O.C.A source within the Compton Fire Department told the Los Angeles Times that the call initially came in as a “pole fire” involving Southern California Edison equipment.Ĭhristian Hernandez, a co-owner of H&H Pallets along with his brother Elias, told KTLA5 that he believes the fire that heavily damaged his business was started at a homeless encampment in a nearby alley. ‘Blood moon’ creates lunar eclipse viewing frenzy at Griffith Parkįatal bus crash: El Monte High victim mourned at school vigil Thompson expects many more firefighters to attend the sentencing on May 22, where Melanson is expected to publicly apologize. “It’s like a family business - terminating your brother or something.” “I’m not mad at him, more mad at what he did,” Deputy Chief Bryan Batiste said. During his 17-year career, he was considered a prodigy and well-liked. Melanson was fired from the department a year ago. “I really would only want to know so I could go back and notice certain signs of someone in dire straits, so I could do something about it.” “I have no idea why this happened,” Thompson said. The plea surprised a handful of Compton firefighters in the courtroom who were there to testify at what they thought would be Melanson’s preliminary hearing.įire Chief Jon Thompson said he was relieved Melanson’s case wouldn’t go to trial, where firefighters would be expected to testify against one of their own. “He deeply regrets that his actions have hurt his family, his friends, and those who he worked with, his fellow firefighters.” “By his plea in criminal court, Marcel took responsibility for his actions, for not only a violation of the law, but for a violation of the trust of the residents of Compton,” defense attorney George Bird said in a statement. Through a repeat buyer, investigators discovered that Melanson had been selling other Compton-owned radio equipment since 2008.Īfter being arrested in May 2013, Melanson had faced up to 10 years and eight months in prison.
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Meanwhile, Los Angeles County sheriff’s investigators discovered that many of the missing radios were sold on Ebay or offline to private buyers, Rose said.
Attention then turned to Melanson, who was on duty at the station the night of the fire and the only one with access to the radios, Long Beach arson investigator Pat Wills said.
Investigators from the Long Beach and Montebello fire departments, as well as the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, concluded the blaze was arson.
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