A fire erupts at a cold-storage warehouse in Los Angeles’ Boyle Heights neighborhood and rapidly spreads across a roof covered with solar panels, producing thick smoke and raising concern about airborne chemicals. The blaze is reported shortly after 2:30 p.m. at a large facility on South Los Palos Avenue. City officials order nearby residents to shelter in place as dark smoke billows into the air and ammonia is reportedly detected or rising from the site.
The Los Angeles Fire Department sends crews to the scene, including firefighters and hazmat teams, and local city and county resources are deployed to contain the incident. The Guardian reports that about 110 firefighters respond and that the facility is a cold storage and freezing warehouse owned by Lineage, with an estimated size of roughly 500,000 square feet.
Authorities work to bring the rooftop flames under control while managing potential hazards associated with smoke and ammonia. The information available across reports focuses on the cause of the shelter-in-place order and the scale of the warehouse and response efforts.
