[Boudica]

I realize the police do their job well to protect the community, but given the level of expertise of the bomb squad, they should've had It under control.

They were attempting to discard fireworks, and not a nuclear weapon.

I completely agree. This makes no sense to me. No common sense was used.

What makes me so exasperated about this whole incident is that they had the cops back off 100 feet, but the conveyance was about 20 feet from homes and businesses, and they did not bother to evacuate the area.

They did not tell anyone in the area what they were going to be doing except for themselves and the helicopters that were filming from overhead.

This was my line of thought too. Was there need for all of these fireworks to be blown up at once too? Could they not have been done in a smaller quantity at a time. They've probably now done more damage, than what a regular user would have done.