The Boyle Heights cold storage warehouse fire in Los Angeles, which started on June 17, burned for over a week and required assistance from out-of-state agencies to assist the Los Angeles Fire Department (LAFD) in knocking it down. On Sunday, LAFD officials stated that it had finally been declared knocked down.
Boyle Heights Lineage cold-storage warehouse fire in Boyle Heights that burned for more than a week has been officially declared knocked down, according to the Los Angeles Fire Department.
The Lineage cold-storage warehouse fire in Boyle Heights that burned for more than a week has been officially declared knocked down, according to the Los Angeles Fire Department.
The inferno began shortly before 2:30 p.m. on June 17 at the facility located in the 1400 block of South Los Palos Street. A knockdown was declared just before 6 p.m. on June 24.
The fire is believed to have started while Altus Power contractors were conducting testing on a rooftop solar array, Lineage said to Eyewitness News in a statement. Altus Power responded, disputing that conclusion.
LAFD initially said it expected to extinguish the fire by midweek, and they're aiming to return the building back over to its owner by Friday.
Air quality concerns persist for large swaths of Los Angeles, but the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and South Coast Air Quality Management District have not detected anything beyond normal combustible material typical after a fire, a Los Angeles Fire Department spokesman said.
L.A. Mayor Karen Bass was once again missing in action while her city suffered under a disaster. Instead of being available to lead and call for a state of emergency, both she and Gov. Gavin Newsom were partying with the Obamas at the Obama Presidential Library fête in Chicago. The structure burned for four days before Newsom even declared a state of emergency. Bass claimed she had been monitoring this latest catastrophic fire, but rightly deserved the criticism she received for once again being out of the city during a time when the city's leader should be there and on top of the situation. But Bass doesn't appear to see this as a critical role of the mayor. Tell me again how she is even up for re-election?
Why are you always MIA when there is a devastating fire in your city?
— XRPatriot (@XRPatriot86) June 27, 2026
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Bass took to X to blame environmental racism for this particular fire, which, while no loss of life was recorded, adversely impacted a community of people and the entire city. Bass did not bother to account for the fact that the LAFD is understaffed and underfunded, nor her own incompetence and negligence in that causation. Nope. Boyle Heights is primarily a Hispanic, working-class neighborhood; so, this fire somehow developed sentience and knew to target the colored poors rather than a more monied area of the city.
It's even more ludicrous than it sounds. As viral L.A. Mayor candidate Spencer Pratt said in one of his campaign ads, "Karen Bass is Awful."
People who are familiar with Boyle Heights know this fire did not happen in a vacuum. Environmental hazards have too often fallen on communities like this one.
— Mayor Karen Bass (@MayorOfLA) June 27, 2026
This moment must be a turning point. We will hold those responsible accountable, and we will fight to change the… pic.twitter.com/gJ2GJNTtQX
People who are familiar with Boyle Heights know this fire did not happen in a vacuum. Environmental hazards have too often fallen on communities like this one.
This moment must be a turning point. We will hold those responsible accountable, and we will fight to change the longstanding systemic failures that have left Boyle Heights disproportionately impacted by industrial incidents. I want to thank the people of Boyle Heights for continuing to make their voices heard. The recovery stage will be shaped by you.
A "turning point" to what, exactly? Bass is the one who keeps slashing the LAFD budget and being asleep at the wheel when tragedy strikes. How exactly does she plan to hold herself accountable for this? The "longstanding systemic failures" continue under her watch. Yet, she cavalierly blames "environmental hazards" that target minority neighborhoods. It's mind-bogglingly stupid.
Bass practically looked the other way while Pacific Palisades was razed to the ground, and almost two years later, she has done nothing to see it revived. But one structure fire in Boyle Heights, and suddenly, something must be done.
Pratt quote-tweeted Bass' ridiculous post, and added his own salient thoughts.
Toxic soil, 6,000 homes destroyed, 12 people burned alive, 400+ excess deaths from toxic smoke exposure…but that was in the Palisades, so who cares about us, right? No, THIS is a turning point. This one structure fire. What a soulless goblin Karen is. https://t.co/neXm0TfpUD
— Spencer Pratt (@spencerpratt) June 27, 2026
Toxic soil, 6,000 homes destroyed, 12 people burned alive, 400+ excess deaths from toxic smoke exposure…but that was in the Palisades, so who cares about us, right? No, THIS is a turning point. This one structure fire. What a soulless goblin Karen is.
Right on the money. Bass is "a soulless goblin," from the Joker-like smile whenever the cameras are rolling, to her inability to eke out even one iota of concern for the wreckage she continues to make of the lives of Los Angeles citizens. Just as a reminder, this was Bass' response when she stepped off the plane from Ghana in 2025, and was confronted by a Sky News reporter about her disappearance while the Palisades Fire raged.
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Bass has done little to redeem herself since. She blamed "both sides" as the cause of the Palisades Fire and the horrific response. Bass also continued to deny she had anything to do with deleted texts and a doctored after-action report, deflecting blame from her for the tragedy. During the May primary debate, Bass blamed the Palisades Fire on climate change.
"Climate change," "environmental racism," whatever... Any convenient bugaboo will do. Bass is turning out to not just be a terrible leader, but an incredibly craven human being.
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