frozen food
Coverage of frozen food in the Nexus archive.
- ‘Like a dead body’: after warehouse fire, LA residents say air thick with smell of rotting food
A week-long warehouse fire in Boyle Heights, near downtown Los Angeles, caused a state of emergency and evacuations due to poor air quality. The fire destroyed half of the warehouse's 85 million pounds of frozen food, leaving 40 million pounds to rot.
- ‘Like a dead body’: after warehouse fire, LA residents say air thick with smell of rotting food
A week-long fire at a Boyle Heights warehouse in Los Angeles spoiled tens of millions of pounds of frozen food, prompting a state of emergency and evacuation orders. The blaze, which emitted thick black smoke and worsened air quality, left approximately 40 million pounds of food to rot after firefighters extinguished the flames. Cleanup efforts are ongoing.
- A fire in LA has been burning for days. What’s taking so long to put it out?
Los Angeles firefighters are on their sixth day of battling a fire at a massive warehouse in Boyle Heights that stores frozen food. The warehouse, covered in solar panels and insulated like a freezer, has been emitting smoke for days.