A RICHMOND, CALIFORNIA, TEENAGER WAS SETTING OFF BOTTLE ROCKETS inside the garage of his family’s home Thursday afternoon. You can guess what happened next.
The resulting 2-alarm fire destroyed the duplex dwelling and displaced a total of 12 people while causing heavy damage to a neighboring house.
The police had already been there earlier in the day when he had been found setting off bottle rockets in his back yard. They confiscated what they could find of his supply and left. But the boy had more hidden away and decided to launch them inside the garage where they couldn’t be seen or heard.
The boy told the officer when he came back the 2nd time, ”You told us not to shoot any bottle rockets from the backyard, so we went into the garage and lit them off in the garage so no one could complain and we couldn’t get caught by the police.”
The boy’s cousin, Juan Carlos-Delos, 20, faces charges of contributing to the delinquency of a minor for allowing the youth to resume lighting fireworks. The boy could face juvenile court charges of causing an illegal fire with property damage.
KGO-TV has a good video report HERE.
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