NPR (The Associated Press) - What to know about a cold storage warehouse fire in Los Angeles
Firefighters are still battling a blaze at a massive frozen-food storage facility near downtown Los Angeles six days after the fire started.
Firefighters are still battling a blaze at a massive frozen-food storage facility near downtown Los Angeles six days after the fire started.
The plume from the stubborn blaze in a cold-storage facility has dissipated, but people in the Boyle Heights neighborhood say they are in a toxic miasma.
A warehouse fire still burns in Los Angeles since Wednesday filling the air with smoke and decreasing air quality in the Boyle Heights neighborhood. California Governor Gavin Newsom has since declared a state of emergency due to the fire. #losangeles #fire #smoke
Firefighters have been battling a fire at a cold storage facility in Boyle Heights for days, and as the flames are extinguished, the building’s structural integrity is becoming more and more of a concern. The Los Angeles Fire Department said Saturday night that crews utilized a “large amount of water” on Saturday night after a day of both ground and aerial fire suppression efforts. With the fire having started Wednesday afternoon, Sunday morning marked the fifth straight day of drenching the burning 500,000-square-foot facility with solar panels on its roof in the 1400 block of South Los Palos Street.
Smoke spread across Los Angeles on Sunday, but the Fire Department said it was making progress in extinguishing the fire at the cold-storage warehouse. State and local officials have declared an emergency.
Firefighters say they are making progress against the blaze, which began Wednesday at a cold-storage facility. But smoke continued to blow across the region, and the authorities reiterated air-quality warnings.
The fire started inside a freezer area at the cold storage facility and was initially extinguished before reigniting.
Firefighters said crews utilized a “large amount of water” after a day of both ground and aerial suppression efforts.
The fire inside the 500,000-square-foot frozen-food warehouse started Wednesday.
The fire at a privately owned cold-storage warehouse in the city's Boyle Heights neighborhood started Wednesday.