Boyle Heights warehouse fire is nearly out, fire officials say

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A fire that has burned at a Boyle Heights warehouse for more than a week is nearly out, after crews managed to extinguish flames on the roof overnight, Los Angeles Fire Department officials said Wednesday.Water-dropping helicopters are no longer needed to knock down flames on the roof of the nearly 500,000-square-foot cold storage facility operated by Lineage, leaving crews to focus their attention on the smoldering fire inside, LAFD Capt.Jacob Raabe said Wednesday morning.“Those air tactics are no longer needed because all the fire has been put out on the roof,” Raabe said outside the facility.

California The fire has sent heavy smoke into neighboring communities for more than a week, disrupting life and business in Los Angeles.The goal on Wednesday, Raabe said, is to extinguish what’s left burning inside the building.But firefighters will have to do that without going inside, he said.The roof, Raabe said, is resting on the 600-foot long, 50-foot tall racks that hold the 85 million pounds of food that are burning and spoiling inside, posing a danger to anyone who’d go in.So instead, firefighters are blasting a constant stream of water into the belly of the warehouse, hoping to drown out the flames.“We still cannot send firefighters into this building and to be quite honest, we’re probably never going to send anyone into this building because there’s no life hazard right now,” Raabe said.

“Were going to put out this fire from the exterior and reevaluate as conditions change.But this tactic is working and it’s putting out the fire.” California A fire continues to burn at a cold storage warehouse in Boyle Heights, prompting questions about operator Lineage Logistics.Crews will fly drones into the building to look for hot spots and then redirect their water cannons accordingly, Raabe said.Though this isn’t the first fire that Lineage has experienced at one o...