A fire in LA has been burning for days. What’s taking so long to put it out?

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While warehouse fires are often extinguished in a day, the Boyle Heights blaze is on its sixth day.

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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/los-angeles">Los Angeles firefighters are on their sixth day of https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/17/los-angeles-warehouse-fire-ammonia">battling a https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/21/los-angeles-warehouse-fire">fire at a massive warehouse near downtown that stores frozen food.

Smoke has billowed from the warehouse, which was covered in solar panels and insulated like a freezer, filling the air surrounding the roughly 500,000-sq-ft (46,450-sq-meter) facility.

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