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A fire in LA has been burning for days. What’s taking so long to put it out?

firetruck parked on street as smoke disperses through air outside building
Firefighters work to put out a fire at a warehouse in the Boyle Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles on 22 June. Photograph: Chelsea Lauren/Shutterstock

Los Angeles firefighters are on their sixth day of battling a fire at a massive warehouse near downtown that stores frozen food.

Smoke has billowed from the warehouse, which was covered in solar panels and insulated like a freezer, filling the air surrounding the roughly 500,000-sq-ft (46,450-sq-meter) facility.

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