At first we thought it was just another fire here in Flameytown, but after burning for over a week the real horror has just begun. The massive inferno at a refrigerated warehouse in LA’s Boyle Heights is now extinguished… and all that remains is some sixty-five MILLION pounds of rotting meat, a small ocean of runoff water and temperatures climbing into the nineties. Already the surrounding area stinks of death and things are likely to get much, much worse.
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Sorry Scott, but there is not enough brain power left in LA or Ca for that matter to think of fire prevention. Gavin will be “let them eat cake.” CA deserves what they voted for.
I will be very interested in finding out how the fire started.
A preliminary report that I read indicated a possibility of an electrical fire during some testing of the rooftop solar array (https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/boyle-heights-biohazard-crisis-warehouse-fire-1806046). However, Altus Power responded, disputing that conclusion.
Scott, I live near you. Are you afraid that the smell will reach us? I am….
I was an EMT for a private service. We had one “box truck,“ a rig with a truck frame instead of a modified van. It had picked up a very ripe corpse some three years before I joined that company. It *still* smelled awful all that time later.
One. Body.
I usually recommend putting lavender oil on your philtrum to mask smells. I hear Vicks Vapo Rub works, too. but the smell of 65 million pounds of rotting food? I don’t think lavender or Vicks will help. The county I grew up in was the pork-producing capital of the state (an no, I am not sure why the county was proud of that), and pig farms are the worse-smelling farms–but still not as bad as this burned-out warehouse is or will be. I think incinerating the food or dumping it in the ocean is the best choices. With the formal,… Read more »
I’m from the South. One of the biggest shocks of my life was seeing a boned salmon “graveyard” in Homer, Alaska. It was next to a controlled tidal fishing area. It didn’t smell! No bugs! No rats! I take that back, there were countless Bald Eagles, Alaska’s version of rats. Dump it in the Bering Sea and the crab population may skyrocket, but disease would be way less as would the smell.
‘Cause it’s cold.
Soooo glad I left LA (Long Beach is south of Boyle Heights). I’d rather be downwind of a sriracha plant. The nauseating smell has got to be way past “gag me”. Imagine trillions of maggots & flies? Robins, starlings, crows, and chickens will feast on maggots – good? Frogs, toads, lizards, dragonflies, wasps and snakes will feed on them (what feeds on them?). Rats, squirrels, mice, shrews, and bats (like from Wuhan labs) also feed on larvae and carry diseases – extremely bad. Sounds like 10 plagues (and lockdowns?) may again be returning to LA – well deserved. Wake me… Read more »
My family’s small party store had a crawl space under the store. A possum died under there and it stunk up the store and we had to crawl under there to remove it. One possum. 65M pounds of stinking meat? OMG!
The headline dated June 21 that I read stated 85 million pounds of meat, fish and wheat products. Regardless, it’s going to cost much to recover.
Who owns the Warehouse? Which company stored the meat there? Why is so much meat stored in one location?