More than a week after fire broke out in a cold storage warehouse in Boyle Heights, the Los Angeles Fire Department announced it had finally stopped burning. The nearly 500,000-square-foot warehouse is operated by Michigan-based Lineage Inc., a company with a record of dozens of health and safety and environmental violations.
The fire has highlighted the environmental and health hazards of the rapidly expanding cold storage industry, which have largely flown under the public radar. Most cold storage warehouses use anhydrous ammonia for refrigeration, which can be fatal if inhaled.
Reporters: Robin Urevich and Aaron CantúProducer: Cerise CastleCamera: Jeremy LindenfeldEditor: Jeremy Lindenfeld
