Firefighters have been facing significant challenges battling the fire, which involves large stacks of materials inside the warehouse and hazards on the roof.<\/p>\n
“So there’s a lot of pallets of food that go up to maybe two and a half stories high, and it’s hard to get in there and on top of it, they had solar panels on the roof,” explained Los Angeles County Supervisor Hilda Solis.<\/p>\n
Firefighters have been facing significant challenges battling the fire in Boyle Heights, which involves large stacks of materials inside the warehouse and hazards on the roof.<\/p>\n
Overnight, crews requested aerial water drops and worked to remove ammonia lines and numerous lithium batteries used to power forklifts.<\/p>\n
High-voltage lines connected to the solar panels pose an additional risk.<\/p>\n
“The fire is in the ceiling, in the roofing, which has 9 inches of foam,” said Los Angeles Fire Department spokesperson Nicolas Prange.<\/p>\n
Officials say removing hazards one by one is a slow, methodical process that could take several days to complete.<\/p>\n
In the meantime, smoke continues to drift into surrounding neighborhoods.<\/p>\n
“The smell is just pretty bad, and my room just smells the entire time,” said Jesus Fuentes.<\/p>\n
Fire officials said the smoke does not contain dangerous substances beyond typical combustion byproducts, but they still caution against exposure.<\/p>\n
“There are no dangerous substances in the smoke besides the general products of combustion, which we don’t recommend anyone breathe,” Prange said.<\/p>\n
Meantime, local leaders have been conducting outreach in the area, distributing masks and addressing community concerns.<\/p>\n
City Councilmember Ysabel Jurado and her staff went door to door to assist residents, particularly those who may face language or access barriers.<\/p>\n
“We needed to do immediate action and outreach to provide the services for our constituents who are sometimes monolingual,” Jurado said. “They don’t have access to technology.”<\/p>\n
Officials also plan to study potential long-term health impacts.<\/p>\n
Solis noted that the same warehouse has caught fire twice in the past two years, raising questions about safety measures at large facilities with solar panel installations.<\/p>\n
“There’s not many buildings that have this large of a facility with so many solar panels, so it’s going to be something that I think we’re going to look at,” Solis said.<\/p>\n
Cloud cover in the area has kept smoke closer to the ground, prompting advisories for residents to stay indoors and keep windows closed.<\/p>\n
However, some say following that guidance has been difficult due to heat.<\/p>\n
“The house is hot right now … its’ fine, but yesterday and the day before, it was really hot,” said Edwin Lopez.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Firefighters have been facing significant challenges battling the fire, which involves large stacks of materials inside the warehouse…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":368631,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[148143,48,52,51,47,50,49],"class_list":["post-368630","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\/368630","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=368630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368630\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/368631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=368630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=368630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=368630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}