Early Tuesday morning, federal agents were spotted staging in a parking lot co-owned by the L.A. Dodgers, on Stadium Way in Elysian Park, only one day after thousands of Dodgers fans celebrated the team’s back-to-back World Series victories.
A Los Angeles firefighter standing in the lot told L.A. TACO that he got a call from someone from the Los Angeles Fire Department (LAFD) earlier this morning, saying that “some unwelcome people” had driven onto a parking lot that the fire department rented from the Dodgers for a seminar that they’re hosting today.
The parking lot in question (Lot 13) is directly adjacent to the Frank Hotchkin’s Memorial Training Center, where Los Angeles firefighters train.
The firefighter said that, as they were walking towards the parking lot, they saw three unmarked vehicles leaving the lot. The firefighter told us that the agents were not welcome on the property and were not involved in the seminar, which focused on training firefighters to put out electric car batteries and natural gas fires.
While standing at the entrance to the parking lot and speaking to L.A. TACO about this morning's presence of federal agents there, two drivers tried to enter the lot in unmarked cars with heavily tinted windows. The firefighter verified that they were not federal agents. It’s unclear how federal agents were able to access the parking lot earlier this morning.