Cleanup under way after week-long fire at a Boyle Heights facility spoiled tens of millions of pounds of frozen food
Something is rotten in the neighborhood of Boyle Heights.
For a week, thick black smoke filled the air while a massive warehouse burned near downtown Los Angeles, prompting a state of emergency and evacuation orders in the immediate area as air quality worsened. Firefighters finally extinguished the flames on Wednesday, but not before half the warehouse’s 85m lbs of frozen food were lost in the fire – leaving roughly 40m lbs of food to rot.
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Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/27/boyle-heights-warehouse-fire-smell-los-angeles
Author : Sophie Sullivan in Los Angeles
Publish date : 2026-06-27 14:00:00
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