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Received — 17 September 2026 ⏭

'Convenient scapegoats': Boyle Heights warehouse company fights fire backlash

✇World & Nation
By: Roger Vincent · Salvador Hernandez
17 September 2026 at 13:00

The company that operates the vast cold storage warehouse scorched in a June blaze that plagued neighbors in Boyle Heights with smoke and stink said it doesn't deserve the pummeling it got for how it contained the catastrophe.

© Allen J. Schaben/Los Angeles Times

Boyle Heights, CA - July 31, 2026: An aerial view of the clean-up process of the Lineage Logistics Cold Storage in Boyle Heights with downtown Los Angeles skyline in the background on Friday, July 31, 2026. East L.A. and Boyle Heights residents held a rally in front of the facility demanding that Lineage permanently shut down its facility and leave Boyle Heights after reports the company is unlikely to meet the city-imposed 45-day cleanup deadline. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times)
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