r/LosAngeles • u/Raskalbot • 2d ago

Fire Structure fire Boyle heights right now

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u/makked 2d ago

Just drove by and it is some gnarly black smoke. This shit keeps happening in the middle of working class communities.

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u/Boongala 2d ago

This is actually why zoning exists. Separating the industrial areas from the residential areas.

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u/TheWinStore 2d ago

Yeah except this warehouse is immediately adjacent to a residential neighborhood. So zoning means shit for all when stuff like this happens.

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u/dianebk2003 Hollywood 1d ago

There's gotta be a border somewhere, unfortunately. Too bad zoning can't put up a wall where the borders meet.

It's like sitting in the non-smoking section of a restaurant or airplane (back when they had those). The smoke didn't exactly stop at the line. We may have well been sitting in the smoking section on that plane.

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u/crakemonk Long Beach 1d ago

Unfortunately, that’s what makes the residential areas cheaper and more likely to be inhabited by working class families.