{"id":368639,"date":"2026-06-20T21:13:21","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T21:13:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/368639\/"},"modified":"2026-06-20T21:13:21","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T21:13:21","slug":"lafd-chief-says-air-is-safe-to-breathe-in-aftermath-of-warehouse-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/368639\/","title":{"rendered":"LAFD chief says air is safe to breathe in aftermath of warehouse fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">On the day after a massive fire erupted on the roof of a warehouse in Boyle Heights, LAFD Chief Jaime Moore said Thursday that the air at the scene was again safe to breathe.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">&#8220;We&#8217;ve been monitoring the air throughout this incident, monitoring the smoke columns, we&#8217;re monitoring downwind,&#8221; Moore said at a news conference near the cold storage facility that was still smoldering. &#8220;We&#8217;re monitoring in the building, we&#8217;re monitoring outside the building, and we&#8217;re getting absolutely no readings of any concern.<\/p>\n<p>On the day after a massive fire erupted on the roof of a warehouse in Boyle Heights, LAFD Chief Jaime Moore said Thursday that the air at the scene was again safe to breathe.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The fire chief noted that conditions where he and reporters were standing were &#8220;clear as can be. The prevailing winds have blown most of the smoke away.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">On Thursday, LAFD spokesperson Jennifer Middleton said there was previous concern over the fire burning an ammonia line, but that danger had &#8220;dissipated.&#8221; The roof blaze had been extinguished by late afternoon and firefighters were entering the building to assess the interior, Middleton said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">The Associated Press contributed to this report.<br class=\" \"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On the day after a massive fire erupted on the roof of a warehouse in Boyle Heights, LAFD&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":368640,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[148143,48,52,51,47,50,49],"class_list":["post-368639","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\/368639","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=368639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368639\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/368640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=368639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=368639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=368639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}