Flash and Bang (Death and Destruction series Book 2) by Patricia Logan

Author:Patricia Logan [Logan, Patricia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Westburg Publishing
Published: 2016-08-13T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nine

It was dinner time when Jarrett and Thayne finished at the LAPD’s substation, so they decided to eat at a restaurant Ari recommended before calling it a day. Wu had been able to pull all the permits they’d requested while they were still there, so they’d spent several hours going over them. As they’d been told, there was no permit for the Chinese lantern that had caused the injuries with the poorly timed firework ignition. All the street vendors seemed to have permits and the parade itself had the proper permits. According to Wu and Deukmejian, the organizer had a good reputation and had done the parade for several years without any major incidents.

The maker of the Chinese lantern had obviously crashed the party and caused the damage and injuries without a permit which would have made things so much easier to follow up on. Now, all they had of the incident were photos and the firsthand account of Officer Deukmejian whom they both found to be very helpful and credible. Jarrett was glad they’d taken the time to meet with the officers and felt good that they had another solid lead. Whoever was doing this was most likely former or active duty military, and if Thayne hadn’t been so observant of the field strips out at Miramar, they would have missed the military connection between the two incidents entirely.

On their way to the Chinese restaurant Deukmejian recommended, they stopped at the scene of the fireworks incident and got out of the Crown Victoria to walk around the street where the field strips had been photographed. The neighborhood was one of the oldest in Los Angeles, heavily populated by shops, restaurants, and markets, doing a busy tourist trade; but that part of LA was also thick with apartment buildings that rose several stories. The LA jewelry district was a few blocks away and the buildings had newer renovations but most of the apartments and stores in this area were very old, built of brick, and reinforced in recent years to meet earthquake building codes. Many retained the old-school fire escapes on the outside of the buildings and some had been renovated, however, a lot of them showed their age. Some were zoned as mixed commercial use and had stores on the street level with apartments up above. All were clustered in a rather small square-mile area, and Jarrett realized that had there been a larger explosion, there would have been a great deal more devastation.

As they had expected, after nearly six months, there was nothing of the field strips or for that matter, any detritus from the parade left on the ground, probably washed away by rain or blown away by the wind. The store owners seemed to take special interest in what they were doing because a couple of them stepped out and began sweeping the sidewalks as Jarrett and Thayne checked out the area. For that matter, one of them could have swept up the field strips when they’d tidied up in front of their stores after the parade.

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