As crews battle a large fire at a cold storage facility in Boyle Heights, drivers are reacting to the black smoke covering the area.<\/p>\n
As crews battle a large fire at a cold storage facility in Boyle Heights from the ground and air, Los Angeles city officials urge the public and their pets to stay indoors and turn off air conditioning units due to hazardous materials.<\/p>\n
Drivers are being urged to avoid the area, especially the 5 Freeway near the 710 Freeway, as a large plume of black smoke hovers over the zone.<\/p>\n
Smoke could be seen for miles, confusing many drivers as to what was going on, some even lowering their windows to take pictures.<\/p>\n
Los Angeles City Councilwoman Ysabel Jurado, who represents the area, issued a statement saying, “Our office is closely monitoring the fire at the cold storage facility on the 1400 block of South Los Palos Street in Boyle Heights. We know how frightening it is to see heavy smoke in your neighborhood, especially for families, workers, small businesses, and commuters who are trying to understand what is happening and how to stay safe.”<\/p>\n
ABC7 Automotive Specialist Dave Kunz recommends drivers stuck on the freeway near the smoke to make sure your car is on the re-circulation mode so it’s not sucking in air from the outside.<\/p>\n
Freeways remain open but are moving slowly.<\/p>\n
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City News Service contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As crews battle a large fire at a cold storage facility in Boyle Heights, drivers are reacting to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":364990,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[148143,48,52,51,47,50,49],"class_list":["post-364989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-148143","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=364989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364989\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/364990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=364989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=364989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}