16 SWAT Team Members Hospitalized After Explosion During Training Exercise

16 members of the Orange Country Sheriff Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) team were injured after an indoor explosion during a training exercise in Irvine, California on Wednesday.

The Orange County Sheriff’s Department (OCSD) announced the injuries in aFacebook statementabout the incident on Wednesday.

The SWAT team members were injured while training with the Hazardous Devices Section (HDS) at the FBI Special Agent Jerry Crowe Regional Tactical Training Facility in Irvine.

The officer with the most serious injury will require surgery on a leg wound. Another team member sustained a superficial injury to his back and a third sustained a superficial injury to his leg.

Sgt. Frank Gonzalez toldthe Associated Pressthat the cause of the explosion, which happened shortly before 1 p.m. local time during a training exercise with the sheriff’s bomb squad.

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Per the statement, the most common injury on the team was “dizziness and ringing to their ears.”

The Orange County Sheriff’s Department told PEOPLE that 15 out of the 16 SWAT team members who were hospitalized have since been discharged, but one team member is still under medical care while recovering from surgery.

The FBI is assisting the OCSD in its investigation into the matter, which is ongoing.

source: people.com