Police and firefighters respond to an explosion rocking the California city of Palm Springs

AP Police and firefighters responded to an explosion Saturday that rocked a neighborhood and damaged a fertility clinic in the tony California city of Palm Springs The act was being investigated as a viable car explosion commented two law enforcement officers briefed on the matter who insisted on anonymity to discuss preliminary information from an ongoing analysis At least one person was supposed dead explained one of the representatives Leadership have not disclosed a motive The city of Palm Springs announced Saturday in a social medial post that the explosion happened at a m local time and that residents were being solicited to avoid the area around North Indian Canyon Drive near East Tachevah Drive Investigators from the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco Firearms and Explosives were on their way to the scene to help assess what happened Dr Maher Abdallah who runs the American Reproductive Centers fertility clinic authenticated that his clinic was damaged He stated The Associated Press in a phone interview that all of his staff were safe and accounted for The explosion damaged the practice s office space where it conducts consultations with patients but left the IVF lab and all of the stored embryos there unharmed I really have no clue what happened Abdallah declared Thank God this day happened to be a day that we have no patients Nima Tabrizi of Santa Monica noted he was inside a cannabis dispensary nearby when he felt a massive explosion The building just shook and we go outside and there s massive cloud smoke Tabrizi revealed Crazy explosion It felt like a bomb went off We went up to the scene and we saw human remains Tabrizi added that the explosion didn t seem to him to come from a car Palm Springs is a tony group in the desert about a two-hour drive east of Los Angeles Its known for upscale resorts and a history of celebrity residents