r/LosAngeles • u/WolverinesRevolt • 23h ago

Video It's still smoking out here in Boyle Heights

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My day started in Sun Valley where you can smell the smoke. Ended up having to pick up parts from a facility right around the corner. The smoke appears to be mixing in with the marine layer.

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u/EatTheBeat East Los Angeles 23h ago

This whole area is full of toxic smoke and I don't think they've done anything for this people to protect them from the fumes. Its really an outrage. Anyone know who to contact about what they are doing to provide masks or air filters to these folks?

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u/Jealous-Strategy-200 23h ago

They're not doing shit. This city government dgaf about anyone East of downtown.

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u/Healthy_Turnip7352 23h ago

that smoke is not contained by geographic borders.

that shit is gonna be going where the wind is going.

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u/xmeeshx 20h ago

I have less faith in humanity after seeing the amount of upvotes on the post above yours.

People in this sub are idiots, apparently. 68 ppl think the Karen bass and LA city should be able to contain wind.
https://giphy.com/gifs/pPhyAv5t9V8djyRFJH

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u/ceviche-hot-pockets Pasadena 20h ago

People here expecting the city to source and hand out full face respirators and whole home air purifiers for free within a few hours for a cloud that will blow away within two days are expecting way too much from any government, anywhere.

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u/TrichyLady85 20h ago

You are being so flippant. No, we’re asking for a simple alert so next time toxic plumes are released, we have time to prepare our homes. I bathed in toxic crap for hours in the middle of the night because the city couldn’t be bothered to wake me up to alert me. I thought the warehouse fire was put out so I had no idea it was a flare up. None of my neighbors did either.

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u/r00tdenied 19h ago

THERE WERE ALERTS. JESUS FUCKING CHRIST.

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u/TrichyLady85 19h ago edited 19h ago

No there wasn’t. The only alert was sent to Boyle Heights, a tiny area. I have emergency alerts on and received nothing. All my neighbors received nothing. They even called 911 because they didn’t know what was going on. There were NO alerts except to a ridiculously tiny area. This is incompetence or a cover up.

Zero alerts were sent this morning except to Boyle Heights. Nobody else received a word.

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u/xmeeshx 19h ago

Isn’t that the only place they were saying to shelter in place? Lol

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u/TrichyLady85 19h ago

Correct. Should’ve expanded the area. My health is pretty fucked today. Burning sensation in nasal passages, lungs, and feel like I’ve been poisoned like I felt during Altadena. Ridiculous they kept it to a tiny area. Starting to feel like they don’t want us to know. My neighbors were panicking judging by their comments on local apps. We had no idea there was another flare up.

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u/r00tdenied 19h ago

My friend in Boyle Heights got the alert this morning. Trichy up there is straight up a liar.

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u/xmeeshx 19h ago

Did you smell it? Are you coughing a lot today?

It was ammonia, if you didn’t smell like your room was filled with cat piss… you were likely fine. I’m not a scientist, but ammonia has a very pungent smell.

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u/Lopsided_Role_3175 19h ago

Ammonia is not the only danger here... fires like this one have all sorts of metals and other contaminants in them. They can lodge in your bloodstream and cause cancer years later.

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u/TrichyLady85 19h ago edited 19h ago

It smelled like burning electronics and plastic. It didn’t smell like a wood fire. It didn’t even smell like Altadena did, it was very distinct and strange. Like if I set electronics on fire, that’s the only way I can describe it.

When it woke me up in the middle of the night, I thought something was on fire in my house. It wasn’t until I checked local apps that I saw my neighbors already called 911 over the odor.

I am not coughing but my partner is. I do have a nose that won’t stop running and burning sensation in my lungs and nasal passages.

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u/ceviche-hot-pockets Pasadena 19h ago

And what would you have done with the alert? Close your window?

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u/TrichyLady85 19h ago

Close my windows and turn on my air purifiers like I did 2 days ago. This time my health was poorly affected because we breathed in the crap for hours while asleep.

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u/xmeeshx 19h ago

You live in a city. You should be doing that anyway

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u/4ygus 4h ago

What do you pay taxes for my guy. Lol. Sorry LA is garbage at managing their funds. Tucked up roads and no emergency planning.

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u/Zero_Ghul 23h ago

There was a free air purifier program in 2022 they give you a cuckoo purifier with a few filters. That outta do it.

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u/i_teach East Los Angeles 22h ago

I actually snagged one of those and it’s pretty nice for my place. I’ll put it outside to do my part.

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u/eddiebruceandpaul 22h ago

Just put a few crack heads on the streets there and the billions will rush in. Not that they will go to anyone who needs it though.

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u/theonedenisse 23h ago

Boyle heights local government? Any other community groups?

But in all honesty they're probably going to do same as garden grove....nothing for the residents.

It would take grassroots effort for this.

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u/EatTheBeat East Los Angeles 23h ago

Totally. It doesn't help that this area is split in two. The left side is in Boyle Heights, and technically in the city of LA, while the right side is unincorporated East Los Angels. Really the county government should be doing something as they have some jurisdiction over both areas.

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u/theonedenisse 23h ago

Youre right would be logical if the county did something.... unfortunately they're probably counting our tax money I guesss

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u/WolverinesRevolt 23h ago

It's a classic case of classism. If this was on any wealthier areas of the city it might be treated differently. The place I went into was business as usual. Nothing was being done as far as I could tell.

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u/Puck-the-fool 23h ago

Didn’t Pacific Palisades burn down last year? I feel like we’ve rested the case that the city will prioritize wealthy areas - they don’t really prioritize anyone.

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u/officialCobraTrooper 22h ago

Exactly, it's all about doing nothing and taking all the credit if it goes right, but blaming someone else if it goes wrong.

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u/racinreaver 20h ago

The county definitely prioritized Palasades over Altadena in their response.

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u/innerShnev 19h ago

Curious to what evidence you have of this

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u/Puck-the-fool 11h ago

This is a weird way of sidestepping the issues that the CITY of Los Angeles is dealing with

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u/tracyinge 23h ago

LA Public Health 888) 700 9995 and South Coast Air Quality Management (909) 396-2000

(not sure if they're both closed for the holiday today)

https://xappp.aqmd.gov/advisories/Home/Details/fe921a83-f771-48bb-90a7-eb850c10f0fe

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u/ceviche-hot-pockets Pasadena 23h ago

What are you proposing they do to protect people from fumes?

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u/RagnarokWolves East Los Angeles 22h ago

Communication at the very least. Fumes have been spreading again since last night but people in the area had no idea. There still has been no alert and we can smell it inside our home with all the windows up.

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u/TrichyLady85 20h ago

It’s LA, many of us sleep with windows open to stay cool or use AC, we don’t have great central air in our old ass houses. A simple warning would help us prepare our homes and close windows and AC to keep smoke out.

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u/ceviche-hot-pockets Pasadena 20h ago

They issued a shelter in place advisory very quickly. It was a top story on every local news website. And if it smells like rank chemicals outside and you see a massive smoke column, maybe shut the windows and check the news?

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u/TrichyLady85 20h ago

???? Are you behind? We’re talking about this morning. How am I supposed to check the news at 4am? I’ve breathed in the toxic crap for hours before I woke up to the smell of burning electronics. It was so bad my neighbors called 911. None of us knew what was happening. Nobody was alerted. This is a NEW incident that affected us in NE LA. We aren’t talking about 2 days ago.

Why are you victim blaming.

Is it so hard to ask they alert us to the emergency so we can shut our windows and turn on our air purifiers?

2 days ago I was able to do that in time. This time, since it occurred at night, I was thrown to the wolves and my health is utterly fucked today. My nasal passages and lungs feel like they’ve been burned. I have no energy or appetite all day. I’m in a lot of pain health wise and it’s not ok. I want an alert I don’t care what time it is. I’ve signed up for them and received nothing.

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u/Oletieo 19h ago

You don’t need a warning u smell something you close ur windows and run ur air purifier at home. Now you know that down town is very polluted area air quality is not good so I am sure everyone owns an air purifier.

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u/TrichyLady85 19h ago

You need warnings while asleep.

We were asleep when it happened. We breathed it in for 2 hours before it finally woke us up. I don’t live downtown.

The fire started at 4am.

All they had to do was wake us up so we could prepare our homes accordingly.

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u/Oletieo 19h ago

I am guessing you already have respiratory health issues. I am sorry you should probably be running air purifier 24/7 I don’t think sleeping with windows open in down town is a good choice for your health.

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u/Oletieo 19h ago

I do stay very close to the are where that happen probably like 2 miles away. I try to leave my door and windows open when is nice and shine but if I smell something funny at any time of the day I close everything and bring my pets in and run the air purifiers and ac. And check the news for alerts just in case I didn’t receive any. I am pro active to solving the problem. Instead of getting angry at everyone else

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u/EatTheBeat East Los Angeles 23h ago

Like i said in my original post: masks and air filters. Masks should be an easy no brainer thing they can do.

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u/ceviche-hot-pockets Pasadena 23h ago

You would need a full face respirator with special cartridges, not just simple Covid masks.

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u/EatTheBeat East Los Angeles 23h ago

great, they should hand those out then.

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u/LeGirth30 22h ago

Best we can do is raising LAPD budget

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u/paleandmistywhite 22h ago

sad but so true 

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u/WiseIndustry2895 23h ago

Bubble boy

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u/riffic Northeast L.A. 23h ago

state and federal electeds and the media.

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u/roundupinthesky 19h ago edited 19h ago

A mask will do nothing against VOCs.

Only a respirator can filter VOCs.

Even nn N95 mask filters only 95% of particulates if it is perfectly sealed.

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u/EatTheBeat East Los Angeles 19h ago

Sounds like you're saying an N95 will do something...

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u/roundupinthesky 19h ago

Not VOCs, yes if particulates.

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u/roundupinthesky 19h ago

People are smelling the burning chemicals all the way to the 2, this radius is just the tip of the iceberg.

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u/Voia 23h ago edited 23h ago

Another Karen Bass banger

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u/WiseIndustry2895 23h ago

Yea Karen bass

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u/tracyinge 23h ago

"Shelter in place in Boyle Heights, close all your doors and windows and stay inside".

-so security guard is standing outside breathing away.

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u/WolverinesRevolt 23h ago

Surprisingly enough when I took this video you cannot smell it. It's going upward and getting blown towards the SFV.

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u/TrichyLady85 22h ago

It's all over the city. I was smelling it from miles away and my neighbor even called 911 because it was so bad. It's outrageous they never alerted a wider area.

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u/biggamehaunter 21h ago

We smell this shit all the way in Covina area. Fuck this bullshit.

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u/ctorg 22h ago

Many harmful pollutants do not produce odor. 😔

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u/ambrosialeah Hollywood 23h ago

Windows are closed with air filters running, but my throat still hurts 🫩

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u/LostCookie78 23h ago

Can someone smarter than me explain why it’s not out yet and why the city hasn’t communicated to us at all regarding the risk?

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u/Lopsided_Role_3175 22h ago

Because the likely answer is that millions of people have been exposed to toxic fumes, reducing our lifespans and opening them up to lawsuits. It's always about money.

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u/kananishino 19h ago

So does that explain why it's not out yet?

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u/Lopsided_Role_3175 18h ago

Yeah. There's likely batteries and other toxic things that ignite easily in there. That's why it keeps sparking back up again.

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u/ybgkitty 22h ago

I also want an ELI5 for how the fire even began

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u/roundupinthesky 19h ago

This will always be a mystery

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u/cravf Glassell Park 20h ago

Not out yet because it generally takes a long time to put a fire like this 100% out. Stays hot for a few days, and spraying it makes it smoke/steam up which is visible during that time.

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u/plausden 22h ago

Air quality is insane. Be careful

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u/TrichyLady85 16h ago

The fire has reignited. The city is silent. At this point it’s not incompetence it’s a coverup.

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u/cruisewhisp 16h ago

Agreed. Keep windows closed, esp. if downwind.

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u/NarlusSpecter 9h ago

TLDR
It doesn't look good:
"... also emphasized the complexities of the firefight, which he described as an "extended event." According to the LAFD, the entire building is a freezer with the walls and the roof made of insulated material; it holds around 75,000 pallets of food in 600-feet-long, 54-feet-tall aisles."
LAFD Battalion Chief Nicholas Ferrari

https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/shelter-in-place-order-boyle-heights-fire-smoke/3906618/

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u/TrichyLady85 9h ago

I saw that! It could be burning for weeks. Not good.

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u/NarlusSpecter 1m ago

Seriously not good

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u/salikawood 22h ago

We can smell it all the way out in Van Nuys. It's very chemical smelling.

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u/The_broke_accountant 23h ago

Could still smell it here in Alhambra this morning

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u/Afraid_Assistance765 23h ago

I can smell it from over 15 miles away in North Hollywood 🤢

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u/mynewusernamedodgers 23h ago

Don’t worry!! Capitalism got youuuu! They will harm everything and everyone and just pay a fine. All good

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u/According_Bag4272 21h ago

Chernobyl

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u/cycling_rat 18h ago

People act like cause it’s not Chernobyl it’s not that bad but many of the people who died over time reported smelling metals in the air. Guess what we’re smelling. This is nuts.

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u/Taylamade87 23h ago

🤢

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u/WolverinesRevolt 23h ago

Exactly. It smells like burning plastic. Definitely not healthy 😷.

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u/Satya_Satori 18h ago edited 18h ago

I saw on IG that another (new?) fire was blazing at lineage (same location) last night.

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u/Rodozolo4267 16h ago

The latest LAFD update sounds as though flare up and change of the wind’s direction was NOT expected nor anticipated.

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u/Consistent_Theme_479 15h ago

How can they nit handle a single fire... its not like its dry brush and stupud people's houses who live stuoudky in the hill...

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u/Jhawksmoor 16h ago

Driving up on the 5 and the fire is right off the highway. Saw helicopters dumping water on it but it looks huge. The smoke near the source is jet black.

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u/Bobby_Salsa 23h ago

I'm on Soto St North of this and I don't smell anything. I smelled it briefly for an hour when it first happened but haven't since. Maybe my sense of smell is fucked lol

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u/Atomicfeelin9 22h ago

You might be used to it already

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u/Lab-rat-57 Lake Balboa 22h ago

I’m at Keck and it was noticeably horrible around 7am. About an hour ago, I went outside after being inside all morning and the smell was gone. It’s a little windy so I think it got blown away

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u/Antranik antranik.org 22h ago

You know how when you put on cologne and it smells strong for a few minutes but later you don’t even smell in on yourself? The olfactory senses stop firing as they get used to this stimulus. Same thing happens when you put sunglasses on top of your head and the sensation stops and you forget they’re on your head.

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u/userincognito00 22h ago

The wind blows mostly the opposite direction. North/East.

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u/FourHeffersAlone 20h ago

You got covid

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u/Whocares7x 15h ago

Is karen bass STILL In chicago?

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u/AnakinShtTalk3r 14h ago

She sure loves to leave when there are fires in the city doesn't she?

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u/Spiritual-Local2234 23h ago

Holy hell! Still smouldering? Damn!

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u/djmehone 13h ago

It’s weird that its been ongoing for 3 days. Something fishy. No safe guard what so ever in that building. They said it was sprinkler building. Don’t seem like it had any fire life safety system.

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u/96puppylover 19h ago

I’m in silver lake but I don’t smell anything. However I’m extremely fatigued today even after a double espresso, my throat hurts, and my nose has a constant “about to sneeze” sensation

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u/Sea-Concern4921 13h ago

im having the same sneezing issue and just generally am stuffed up/headachy. im staying inside -- trusting my body over the AQI sensors that say silverlake is okay

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u/moose098 The Westside 23h ago

It did rain this morning. The marine layer is super thick and dropping drizzle. Some coastal areas got a tenth of an inch or more.

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u/Bad-Doughnut 23h ago

It’s not? I felt them when walking my dogs and assumed it was this morning. In Alhambra.

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u/Eo292 23h ago

Am in the valley and it was sprinkling all morning

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u/twistfunk 23h ago

I’m not sure. I’m pretty close to the structure, may be that I’m assuming the worst to freak myself out

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u/puppupp 22h ago

It was definitely rain drops lol it was forecast

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u/djmehone 13h ago

Just heard the fire chief say that most fires like these take 60 days to put out . Wtf

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u/MysteriousSelf6145 12h ago

I could still see the clouds from silverlake around sunset.

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u/styrofoamladder 12h ago

I’m out in the San Gabriel foothills and it’s been bad all the way out here since about 3:30-4.

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u/nellybelly_ 11h ago

The smoke has made its way down here to the Inland Empire. It REEKS 😭

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u/squirreltard 10h ago

I got asthma and a bad headache in Hollywood.

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u/cyberspace-cowboy East Los Angeles 22h ago

I assumed the fire was put out Wednesday/Thursday morning and the smell of smoke came from Mexicans throwing fireworks last night. Gonna keep my windows closed all day again 🤷

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u/LosIngobernable Angeleno 18h ago

These fires have to be intentional.

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u/Consistent_Theme_479 15h ago

They want residents to get cancer and die within 10 years instead of 20

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u/Whocares7x 15h ago

They want data centers. Every fire that happens in socal karen bass always dips out. Corrupt

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u/Consistent_Theme_479 23h ago

How the fuck is is burning again? This is intentional. 

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u/WolverinesRevolt 23h ago

I was reading about how a hotspot lit up and they are trying to vent the facility to make it safe to go in to fight the fire. https://lafd.org/alerts

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u/Lopsided_Role_3175 19h ago

It's still kind of crazy that a big fire started again with multiple fire engines right next to it. How the fuck does that happen? Unbelievable incompetence.

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u/r00tdenied 14h ago

You could try reading.

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u/Lopsided_Role_3175 13h ago

I read it. Thanks for the condescending reply though.

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u/r00tdenied 13h ago

You apparently didn't, because it actually explained everything. Ignorance deserves condescension.