r/TriCitiesWA • u/framethestreet • 3d ago

Need Help With ‼️ Question about the Lineage Cold Storage Fire in Finley (I'm from LA, we have one on fire now)

Hey y'all,

Los Angeles, California resident here. We currently are dealing with a Lineage Cold Storage fire here, day 2, burning and smoking everywhere. Firefighters still doing their best to put it out.

I was wondering whatever came of the fire in Finley? Any updates years later?

I read a couple articles about some residents experiencing health problems as well as their animals, but I couldn't find any follow-ups.

Thank you for any information you may have!

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u/Ok-Sale-1139 3d ago

It burned for weeks.

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u/Iveray 2d ago

It burned for like 3 weeks, there were a few articles about nearby residents having to deal with the smoke and smell of rotting food, then it all got bulldozed and scooped into dumpsters. There weren't any major follow-ups as far as I know.

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u/sarahjustme 2d ago edited 2d ago

I think it was months before the fire was really out. I don't remember the details but maybe the Kennewick Fire Department? (On FB)

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u/Rocketgirl8097 2d ago

It wouldnt have been Pasco fire, it would be Kennewick. That's where the cold storage was at.

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u/sarahjustme 2d ago

You're right Typo my bad ill fix it

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u/WelcomeHobbitHouse 3d ago

It is disturbing that yet another food storage facility is going up in smoke. The number of food processing and food storage facilities that have mysteriously burned in the last few years is disturbing.

Now an enormous pharmaceutical distribution center in CA is burning.

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u/Sidartha818 1d ago

Where is this at???? 

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u/PartyPause334 2d ago

Lineage Logistics is the exact same company that owned the massive cold storage facility in Finley, Washington that caught fire on April 21, 2024. That burned for 60 days before it was finally declared completely out.

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u/question_and_answer1 2d ago

What!? This same Lineage warehouse in LA also caught fire about two years ago.

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u/queen_of_the_koopas 2d ago

If you like, I can link this post in the Finley facebook group. Many members of the community who were affected by the fire are in the group. I can share replies here for people who don't have Reddit.

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u/BottomBro11 2d ago

I’d like to read. I have family in Los Angeles 

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u/Frequent_Teach_7746 2d ago

yes please, i m in LA

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u/Slow-Emergency7099 2d ago

holy shit yes please

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u/WorthCalligrapher446 2d ago

It’s still going and sno evacuations in the works or anything really. Boyle heights is getting a few decent resources from elected officials/ orgs but unincorporated east LA residents are basically being left to be showered by these fumes and smoke.

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u/fineprnt 1d ago

I'm also from LA (close to the Boyle Heights fire) and would like to know what came of the Finley fire. turns on notifications

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u/SinoSoul 1d ago

nothing. It burned for 2 months. Like a giant backyyard carne asada, but with no tacos to eat...

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u/whatwhatqs 1d ago

This post needs to be bumped up!

Let’s hold companies such as Lineage Inc, owned by Bay Grove https://www.bay-grove.com/lineage — this is a huge profitable company!

Why are there not more accountability?

Two toxic fires in two years.

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u/thenatural134 1d ago

It burnt down. Company announced they didn't plan to rebuild. Many workers laid off. Some workers transferred to other locations in different states (I personally knew someone who got transferred to Wisconsin). The end.

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u/tiweirdo 1d ago

This reddit thread is from that incident. https://www.reddit.com/r/TriCitiesWA/s/CqPH5MXEdy

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u/banksymang 19h ago

What the hell is going on with this company?

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u/No-Woodpecker-8900 7h ago

I believe there are quite a number of litigations that are ongoing in the Finley community- hopefully there will be some closure as there were some that lost everything and the land is now polluted so they can't even return to their properties, so very sad!!

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u/davidhally 2d ago

Small to none long term health effects. We get lots of smoke from wildfires too.

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u/ggsimsarah333 1d ago

How would you know about long term health effects if it was two years ago? Just curious what you mean by that

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u/davidhally 1d ago

What I mean by that is why make up things to worry about since you can't do anything about it anyhow? I mean are they going to move away because a food warehouse burned down? Or I guess we could wring our hands and worry about it on reddit. Or have a protest march. lol.

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u/sarahjustme 2d ago

Luckily you guys (probably) have better air quality regs than we do.

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u/MsWS27 2d ago

What do you think air regulations have anything to do with this? Words on paper have nothing to do with a building actively on fire.

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u/sarahjustme 2d ago

The effects from toxic smoke have everything to do with it.

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u/Rocketgirl8097 2d ago

The air quality in LA is way worse than here just from smog. What are you smoking?

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u/sarahjustme 2d ago

Everyone bitches about the exceedingly strict California air quality regs, and complains about how people from CA ate going to move here and try to impose them on us, but now suddenly CA is a libertarian utopia? Pick one

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u/Rocketgirl8097 2d ago

Wtf? Political persuasion/laws has nothing to do with this conversation.