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

While warehouse fires are often extinguished in a day, the Boyle Heights blaze is on its sixth day. Here’s what to know Los Angeles firefighters are on their sixth day of battling a 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. The blaze that broke out last Wednesday has been especially challenging for firefighters due to the nature of the facility operated by Michigan-based Lineage in the Boyle Heights neighborhood east of downtown. Firefighters haven’t been able to enter the building and are instead fighting the blaze from outside. Authorities said a large warehouse fire can typically be put out in a day, but in a cold storage facility, it can take weeks. Jaime Moore, the chief of the Los Angeles fire department, said there are about 85m lbs (38.6m kg) of frozen food stored inside. The cause of the fire has not been determined, Lineage said in a statement on its website. The company, which provides temperature-controlled warehouse space to food and beverage makers, believes

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