Days after a fire erupted at a warehouse in Boyle Heights, the Los Angeles Fire Department changed its tactics as the stubborn blaze continued to burn.<\/p>\n
Speaking to reporters on Sunday, LAFD Chief Jaime Moore said: “I’ve really got some great news for everybody, we’ve made some incredible headway since our last press conference” on Saturday afternoon.<\/p>\n
“We brought in some — as I mentioned yesterday — some water-dropping helicopters that were larger, 3,000 gallons,” Moore said. “They were dropping a retardant on it. We did those flights and then we started to go back to our traditional methods — and that was our use of our ladder pipes.”<\/p>\n
The ladder pipes deliver between 1,500 and 2,000 gallons of water on the burning surface of the structure.<\/p>\n
LAFD Chief Jaime Moore explained how the Los Angeles Fire Department is using water cannons in the ongoing firefight at a warehouse in Boyle Heights.<\/p>\n
“What we did change was this: We split this building in half and we’ve been concentrating on saving what we call Cooler 1,” the fire chief said, noting that that dimensions of the massive structure are 1,000 feet by 500 feet. “Cooler 1 has not had any fire impinge in it, so it hasn’t been fully involved, so we’ve been able to keep that cool and isolated.”<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, firefighters with excavators have now gone into the part of the building known as Cooler 2, where the main fire burned, and the LAFD’s heavy-equipment operators have torn off the well-insulated walls.<\/p>\n
The walls “have corrugated steel on the outside, we have corrugated steel on the inside, and inside is the foam,” Moore explained.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Days after a fire erupted at a warehouse in Boyle Heights, the Los Angeles Fire Department changed its…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":372378,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[148143,48,52,51,47,50,49],"class_list":["post-372377","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\/372377","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=372377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372377\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/372378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}