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Victor Aguirre and his wife, Claudia, named warehouse owner Steve Sungho Lee and the owners of Green Buddha and Smoke Tokes, the two smoke shops housed in Lee's East 3rd Street building where the explosion that injured 12 firefighters took place
A Los Angeles fire captain is suing two vape shops and their landlord after an explosion in May of 2020, caused by an excess of nitrous oxide and butane containers in the shops, left him with 'catastrophic injuries' and without fingers.
Victor Aguirre and his wife, Claudia, named warehouse owner Steve Sungho Lee and the owners of Green Buddha and Smoke Tokes, the two smoke shops housed in Lee's East 3rd Street building where the explosion that injured 12 firefighters took place.
Aguirre accused the three parties of 'hazardous activity, premise liability and negligence,' according to the Los Angeles Times.
Attorney Patrick Gunning wrote in the complaint Lee and business owners Raheel Lakhany and Shafaq Sattar are 'to blame for the horrific injuries Mr. Aguirre and the other 11 firefighters suffered.'
Gunning alleges in the lawsuit that responding firefighters thought they were fighting a 'routine ventilation limited structure fire' - moments after they entered the building, however, they heard a 'popcorn-like noise that became a
