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Warehouse Fire Plagues Boyle Heights With 85 Million Pounds of Rotting Meat: 'Like A Dead Body' Smell

Boyle Heights residents face biohazard crisis after Lineage warehouse fire left 85 million pounds rotting meat, 14 families evacuated, 5,000 truckloads needed for cleanup.

International Business Times UK

‘Like a dead body’: after warehouse fire, LA residents say air thick with smell of rotting food

Cleanup under way after week-long fire at a Boyle Heights facility spoiled tens of millions of pounds of frozen food

The Guardian - US

As Cold Storage Company Became Global Titan, Fire Risks Piled Up

Lineage transformed food supply chains and made its owners rich. Now it’s hired a crisis team in the wake of East L.A. warehouse fire.

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Los Angeles declares state of emergency as Firefighters struggle to control blaze in cold storage facility

85 million pounds of food are trapped and rotting inside the structure.

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

While warehouse fires are often extinguished in a day, the Boyle Heights blaze is on its sixth day. Here’s what to know

The Guardian - US

LA firefighters battle warehouse blaze amid concerns over billowing smoke

Newsom declares state of emergency as crews continue to fight stubborn Boyle Heights fire that has raged for days

The Guardian - US

Shelter-in-place ordered in LA as blaze engulfs roof of 500,000 sq-ft warehouse

Clouds of dark smoke and ammonia rose from cold storage and freezing facility in Boyle Heights near downtown

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ICE Agents in Unmarked Trucks Ram Into Car With Children in the Backseat to Arrest Los Angeles Man

ICE agents used unmarked vehicles to arrest a man in Boyle Heights by ramming his car with children inside to prevent them from fleeing.

Latin Times

A Picture of Health in Los Angeles’ Boyle Heights

Painting a mural charting the native origins of chocolate teaches teens how excess sugar and food additives drive health problems in their community.

Capital & Main

In Los Angeles, Shade Most Often Goes to the Privileged

After the hottest summer on record, officials vow again to make the city’s tree cover more equitable.

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‘He shouted “I wanna die” and reached for his gun’ – Gregory Bojorquez’s best photograph

‘As I came around the corner, I saw the shooter and heard the bullets ricocheting – bing, bang, bing. An LA police officer shot him and he fell to the ground. It was suicide by cop’

The Guardian - UK

Boyle Heights Running Group Meets Critical Needs for Latinas

Running Mamis creates a safe space to run — away from road hazards, harassment and the strains of postpartum depression.

Capital & Main

Child-care providers by day, Amazon drivers by night. Workers fight for living wages

Behind the white iron gate of her Boyle Heights, Los Angeles home, Adriana Lorenzo's concrete courtyard is filled with half a dozen tricycles, a basketball hoop and the melodic cadences of classical music that resonate through the play area. "It keeps the kids happy and calm," she says.

Los Angeles Times

With humor and Xanax earrings, she fearlessly puts Latino mental health on display

LOS ANGELES -- “I felt anxious before I came here today,” Rosa Valdes said as she arranged her Educated Chola T-shirts, totes and mugs inside the Cafe Girasol coffee shop in Boyle Heights. “Just because I take anti-anxiety medication, it doesn’t mean it’s gone.”

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More LA Latinos falling into homelessness, shaking communities in ‘a moment of crisis’

LOS ANGELES — Miguel Meneses and his wife were struggling to get by when the pandemic hit. They lost their rent-controlled apartment in Boyle Heights and moved with their three children to a rental house in Pomona that cost four times as much.

Los Angeles Times

Gustavo Arellano: Rick Caruso's Latino appeal isn't bought — it's real. But is it enough to win?

Telenovela star Kate del Castillo took a lunchtime stroll toward a black GMC Yukon parked on Cesar E. Chavez Avenue in Boyle Heights, cameramen and photographers behind her.

Al Jazeera

As heatwave smothers California, not everyone can cool down

Long-standing inequalities, such as lack of green space in poorer neighbourhoods, put many people at risk, experts say.

Los Angeles Times

Latinos favored Rick Caruso in the LA mayoral primary. But they may not swing his way in November

LOS ANGELES — As Los Angeles residents decide who will be their mayor, Rep. Karen Bass is trying to build on her 7-point advantage in the primary over billionaire developer Rick Caruso.

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Thousands of homeless people in LA's old Sears building? Some in Boyle Heights say no way

LOS ANGELES — Bill Taormina had 17 minutes to convince the crowd in the auditorium of Boyle Heights Resurrection School to back his plan to turn their shuttered neighborhood Sears into a giant homeless services hub.

Los Angeles Times

Gustavo Arellano: What memorials for aborted fetuses tell us

Deep in the Odd Fellows Cemetery in Boyle Heights, a longer-than-usual tombstone lies near a chain-link fence.

Los Angeles Times

3 killed, 4 wounded in shooting at LA warehouse party

LOS ANGELES — Three people were killed and four others wounded in a shooting early Sunday at a warehouse party in Boyle Heights, Los Angeles police said.

Los Angeles Times

Steve Lopez: A momentous LA election where 75% of voters didn’t care enough to show up

Griselda Chapa stood in the street outside her Boyle Heights home, camera at the ready.

Los Angeles Times

Vicente Fernandez’s name will grace a Boyle Heights street, LA City Council decides

LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles City Council voted Tuesday to approve the renaming of a Boyle Heights street after legendary Mexican ranchera singer Vicente Fernandez, who died in December at age 81.

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