<div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The FBI has identified a 25-year-old California man as the person they say is responsible for the </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/world/police-and-firefighters-respond-to-an-explosion-rocking-the-california-city-of-palm-springs/c42e30fd-f64d-4611-9991-e8917c0a996c" rel="" target="_blank" title="explosion of a Palm Springs fertility clinic"><span>explosion of a Palm Springs fertility clinic</span></a><span>.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Authorities say the suspect, Guy Edward Bartkus of Twentynine Palms, is the same person who was found near a charred-out vehicle by the clinic.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Akil Davis, the head of the FBI's Los Angeles field office, said during a news conference that investigators were reviewing writings left behind by 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class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The explosion is "probably the largest bombing scene that we've had in Southern California," Davis added.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Authorities were executing a search warrant in Twentynine Palms as part of the investigation.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The suspect posted writings online and attempted to record the explosion, though authorities said the video failed to upload.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>An official who was not authorised to discuss details of the attack spoke on condition of anonymity to The Associated Press.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The blast gutted the single-story American Reproductive Centers clinic in upscale Palm Springs, though a doctor told the Associated Press its staff members were safe.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"Thank God today happened to be a day that we have no patients," Dr Maher Abdallah, who leads the clinic, told the AP in a phone interview.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/national/how-to-follow-9news-digital/29855bb1-ad3d-4c38-bc25-3cb52af1216f" target="_blank"><strong><em><span>DOWNLOAD THE 9NEWS APP</span></em></strong></a><strong><em><span>: Stay across all the latest in breaking news, sport, politics and the weather via our news app and get notifications sent straight to your smartphone. 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