Los Angeles Fire Department Captain Burned in Explosion Sues Businesses, Building Owner

Los Angeles Fire Department firefighters push ambulance cots at the scene of a structure fire that injured multiple firefighters in Los Angeles, Calif., on May 16, 2020. Damian Dovarganes/AP Photo

A Los Angeles Fire Department (LAFD) captain is suing a downtown vape shop and its building owner for negligence and hazardous activity after he was severely burned in an explosion last year.

Firefighters were responding to a fire that broke out in the warehouse in May 2020, when the building exploded in a 30-foot-wide ball of fire, injuring 12 firefighters along with LAFD Captain Victor Aguirre, a 20-year veteran of the department.