Merve Berker<\/p>\n
21 June 2026\u2022Update: 21 June 2026<\/p>\n
California Governor Gavin Newsom has declared a state of emergency in response to a fire that has been burning for several days at a cold-food storage facility in Los Angeles’ Boyle Heights neighborhood, according to media reports on Saturday.<\/p>\n
The declaration came as firefighters continue efforts to contain the blaze, which began on Wednesday and has affected air quality across parts of the region, according to NBC News.<\/p>\n
\u201cCalifornia is mobilizing to support Los Angeles as firefighters and emergency personnel continue their work to contain this fire and protect surrounding communities,\u201d Newsom said.<\/p>\n
State officials said they are preparing 5.5 million N95 masks, air purifiers, bottled water and other emergency supplies while expanding air-quality monitoring.<\/p>\n
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass earlier declared a local emergency, saying authorities were concerned about potential health impacts on nearby communities.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe clearly need resources from the state to allow us to take the steps that are needed to make sure that this area is safe,\u201d Bass said.<\/p>\n
Officials said more than 85 million pounds (39 million kilograms) of frozen food stored at the facility could begin decomposing, raising concerns about possible biohazard conditions.<\/p>\n
Los Angeles Fire Department Chief Jaime Moore said hazardous refrigerants, including ammonia, had already been removed from the site.<\/p>\n
Fire crews have deployed helicopters capable of dropping up to 3,000 gallons of water at a time and are using gel-based fire retardants to accelerate containment efforts, according to the report.<\/p>\n
A smoke advisory remained in effect on Sunday as firefighters continued battling the blaze.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Merve Berker 21 June 2026\u2022Update: 21 June 2026 California Governor Gavin Newsom has declared a state of emergency…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":369057,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[48,52,51,47,50,49,122814],"class_list":["post-369056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-sitekeywords"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369056","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=369056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369056\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/369057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}