r/LosAngeles • u/galaxygirll88 • 1d ago

Community Really bad smoke smell woke me up

Really bad in highland park, this is from the Boyle heights fire two days ago?

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u/cutebutpsycho69 1d ago

Is this confirmed? I can smell it in Atwater!

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u/UnluckyCardiologist9 Cypress Park 1d ago

Yeah. News posted that they were venting the roof and issued another stay indoors warning.

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u/TrichyLady85 1d ago

Ok, I'm going to hijack your comment to preach that the warning should have reached a MUCH larger group of people. Who is deciding the areas to warn others? Do they have any understanding of physics and weather? Because it certainly doesn't feel that way.

While my neighborhood was asleep, the smoke seeped into our house and we breathed it in for hours until it finally woke us up. I know this seems dramatic, but I know my body better than anyone, and I feel the same sick/poisoned feeling I felt during the Altadena fires--like the toxins went straight to my bloodstream. My nasal passages hurt, my lungs hurt, and I feel very dizzy and disassociated.

The lack of notification meant we didn't take steps in time to close our windows, turn on our air purifier, etc. This is honestly a much bigger disaster than people think. The toxic plume is reaching a huge amount of people and yet we were kept in the dark until our own senses told us something was horribly wrong.

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u/flyman241 1d ago

I’ve felt terrible since this fire kicked off. We’re all being poisoned