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Sophie Sullivan in Los Angeles

‘Slap in the face’: LA mayor decries bid to rebuild burnt-out warehouse before cleanup is done

Exterior view of maybe three-story building encased in white plastic sheeting, with orange and white cones and barriers erected around it.
The Lineage Logistics warehouse in the Boyle Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles, on 22 July. Photograph: Chris Torres/EPA

One month after a huge fire ravaged a Los Angeles warehouse and doomed neighbors to a persistent, thick stench of rotting food, the facility’s owners have filed applications to rebuild.

That request to restore the warehouse – which residents called a “ticking bomb” after a similar fire at the building in 2024 – was publicly criticized by the Los Angeles mayor, Karen Bass, in a post on social media earlier this week.

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