Boyle Heights residents demand Lineage shutdown amid rats, rotting food stench in fire aftermath
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Residents in Boyle Heights are demanding the food storage facility that caught fire two weeks ago be permanently shut down. The massive fire that sparked last month at the warehouse caused health concerns. Now, residents are dealing with the smell of rotting food that was stored at the facility.
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The smoke is gone. The smell is worse. Eight days after a fire tore through the Lineage cold-storage warehouse here, Los Angeles firefighters declared the blaze knocked down Wednesday. On Friday, the Los Angeles Fire Department handed the building back to its operators, and the hard part began.
More than a week after the Lineage warehouse in Boyle Heights burned down, smoke is being replaced by rotten odors and concerns over water contamination. Workers began removing tons of rotting food and hauling it away earlier.
A group of Boyle Heights neighbors and community members Thursday demanded the burned Lineage storage facility be shut down permanently and moved out of their neighborhood as cleanup efforts continued. The fire, which broke out inside the 500,000-square-foot cold food storage building owned by Linea…
Some residents and community groups urged Lineage, the company that managed a cold-storage warehouse damaged in a massive fire, to clean up and leave Boyle Heights for good.
Residents in Boyle Heights are demanding the food storage facility that caught fire two weeks ago be permanently shut down. The massive fire that sparked last month at the warehouse caused health concerns. Now, residents are dealing with the smell of rotting food that was stored at the facility.
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