Local emergency declared in LA as Boyle Heights warehouse blaze continues to smolder
Summary
A large fire continues to burn at a cold storage warehouse in Boyle Heights, Los Angeles. Firefighters are using water-dropping helicopters and special fire-retardant gel to control the blaze, while the Mayor has declared a local emergency to help with the response.Key Facts
- The fire started on Wednesday afternoon at the 500,000-square-foot Lineage Big Bear cold storage facility.
- The building stores frozen food and is built with steel walls, dense foam insulation, and uses ammonia in its refrigeration system.
- Firefighters have controlled the fire in about half of the building but the rest of the facility contains frozen food that is thawing.
- There are roughly 85 million pounds of frozen food inside, including meat products like chicken, beef, pork, and fish.
- The foam insulation inside the building burns slowly and makes the fire hard to control.
- Fire crews use helicopters that drop about 3,000 gallons of water at a time and apply fire-retardant gel to slow the fire.
- Firefighters are not entering the building because it is unsafe and visibility is zero.
- Officials are working on safely removing unaffected food before it spoils and creates health risks.
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