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Lineage Logistics Warehouse Fire Leaves 85M Pounds of Rotting Food as Mayor Orders 45-Day Cleanup

A roof fire destroyed a nearly 500,000-square-foot Lineage Logistics cold-storage warehouse in Boyle Heights and left about 85 million pounds of food to rot, officials and residents say.Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass directed Lineage Logistics and building owner Chill Build to deliver a cleanup plan and remove the rotting food within 45 days; crews have taken out roughly 1.4M pounds and plan to remove 3.2M more.Residents confronted Jeff Rivera at a tense town hall, reporting headaches, nausea and breathing trouble, demanding that Lineage Logistics leave the neighborhood and pressing investigators over whether rooftop solar equipment sparked the blaze.
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