Amid smell and rodent worries, millions of pounds of rotting meat hauled off in Boyle Heights

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Set us as preferred The city of Los Angeles formulated a plan and has begun hauling out millions of pounds of rotting food from a burned cold-storage warehouse in Boyle Heights, where crews are putting in place measures to mitigate the smell of pests that the work might attract.Traps were placed outside the damaged warehouse and along neighboring residential streets, and city officials said Lineage, the company that managed the facility, is using deodorizers and misters to manage the smell from the rotting food.“The fire may be knocked down, but this crisis is not over for the families, workers, students, and small businesses living with the odor, pests, truck traffic, and uncertainty left behind,” said Los Angeles Councilmember Ysabel Jurado in a prepared statement Monday.

Firefighters battled for several days to knock down the fire that sporadically shrouded Boyle Heights and East L.A.neighborhoods in smoke after it ignited on June 17.

Large metal stacks of thawing food inside the warehouse prevented firefighters from safely entering the building to get to the flames directly, forcing them to tear down part of the building so they could fight the flames with water cannons from the outside.But the long work seemed far from over Monday, as city officials said they expected a virtual caravan of heavy haulers rolling down city streets to clean up the damaged warehouse , while other workers simultaneously try to keep smells from the site and hungry pests at bay.

Climate & Environment The copious water needed to put out the Lineage warehouse fire in Boyle Heights over a week is now running into the LA River.The 85 million pounds of food, including meat and fish, is expected to be hauled to multiple landfills in Los Angeles, Ventura and Riverside counties.Lineage estimates it will require 5,000 truck loads, according to a...