An Eriote, original.

I was born with a special gift.

The ability to mentally transform any situation into the worst case scenario.

In my own brain.

My therapist calls my gift catastrophizing.

And that's why I'm uniquely qualified to scrutinize and analyze history's greatest disasters.

And find out who's to blame.

They say history repeats itself.

Not on my watch.

My name is Rebecca Delgado-Smith, and I am the alarmist.

Hey everyone, thanks for tuning into the alarmist.

A comedy podcast where we talk about history's greatest tragedies and figure out who's to blame.

Today we're discussing the South LA Firework Explosion.

Here's what you need to know.

It was the Wednesday before Fourth of July weekend, when the Los Angeles Police Department received an anonymous tip at 8.45am.

The caller reported illegal fireworks were being sold near East 27th Street and San Pedro Street.

LAPD dispatched officers to the South LA neighborhood to scope out the area.

Historic South Central is a formerly red line district and home to a mostly lower income black and brown community.

And it's one of the most densely populated neighborhoods in the city.

The police officers knocked on the door of Arduro Seja III at 9.30am and found over 500 boxes of commercial grade fireworks underneath a brown tarp in the backyard of the house.

After putting Arduro in custody, police called in transportation to remove the commercial grade explosives.

But they had also found homemade fireworks that they deemed too volatile to move.

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