Massive fire at Compton industrial complex rips through structures, buses | ABC7

Pallets don't start fires..Someone else does.

There is more to this story. Pallets just don’t catch on fire like that. This is arson

Diesel fuel, foam rubber, and dry wood -- the arsonist's friends.

Looks fishy, a couple million dollars worth of busses burning when tourism is down... 🤔

Pallets, matresses, and diesel fuel.yeah thats not gonna go out anytimes soon.

A palette yard next to a maintenance yard? What could possibly go wrong.

Palettes do not start burning by themselves. They require human intervention.

I don't know but these fires are like being intentionally set.

You can almost hear the insurance adjuster having a stroke...

The smoke in the sky looked like a nuclear cloud mushroom.

Posters asking why they didn't move the coaches: A), the fires started long before sunrise, so there probably wasn't anyone around. B), the coaches need a minimum of 70 psi air pressure to unlock the parking brakes. It can take 5 minutes to build air, because there are not only brakes, but also air-bag suspension and air tanks that have to be filled. C), if someone had seen the fire start and wanted to move coaches, they might have to first know which coaches to get keys for, then get the keys, use the right key for each coach, then start. While one coach builds air, they could repeat the process for the next coach, then the next, etc. This assumes that the coaches' "Front/Off/Rear" switches weren't set to lock out the driver's start switch (which a lot of companies in California do when parking coaches overnight, to make them harder to steal). D), pallet yard fires are HOT, so it would likely have been impossible for anyone to get into the coaches by the time the fire department arrived, and the fire depart would probably keep people out after that.

I was there, even across the street the heat was oppressive. Absolutely mesmerizing watching and hearing it.

This is sad. However, can someone not move those buses that have not yet been consumed? Like the one on the lower left, etc. That would save money and at the same time remove fuel from the path of the fire.

Wow this sucks hopefully no one gets hurt. Shoutout to all firefighters 🚒 I appreciate what you do

"we just hate to see that" lol dont lie, your loving this, means more viewers and some excitement

Buses/coaches are very problematic when parked in any yard. They need to be parked close to fit in, but this unfortunately makes it very difficult/impossible for firefighters to access. Coupled with the fact that they are made of highly combustible materials means the outcome is usually bad. We had a fire in our coach yard in the UK, and lost about ten vehicles. Horrible.

The business owner warned the city months ago, that the homeless behind his building would do this. The city just laughed at him..

Those are provost tour buses.... I wouldn’t park million dollar busses next to a pile of kindling

As a professional retired FF all I have to say is WOW, glad I’m not there.

when the fire started, why did they not pull or drive those bus's out of the way?