Aerial footage showed a burned-out car in a parking lot behind the building that housed the fertility clinic’s office space. The blast caved in the building’s roof and blew a wide debris field across a sidewalk and four lanes of the street on the other side of the structure.
This image provided by Nima Tabrizi shows glass and debris on the ground after the explosion.Credit: AP
Rhino Williams, 47, was chatting with customers at a restaurant he helps manage just over a block away from the scene when he heard a huge boom. Everything rattled, he said, and Williams – who has a background in aviation – immediately sprinted to the scene to see if anyone was in need of help, thinking a helicopter might have crashed.
Williams saw a large dark grey plume of smoke and covered his nose with his shirt as he smelled burning plastic and rubber. He said he saw a building had “blown out” into the street, with bricks scattered everywhere, and spotted a car’s axle on fire in the building’s parking lot.
Nima Tabrizi, 37, of Santa Monica, said he was inside a cannabis dispensary nearby when he felt a massive explosion. “The building just shook, and we go outside and there’s massive cloud smoke,” Tabrizi said. “Crazy explosion. It felt like a bomb went off … We went up to the scene, and we saw human remains.”
Palm Springs is a small community in the desert about a two-hour drive east of Los Angeles. It is known for upscale resorts and a history of celebrity residents.
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