Furious Boyle Heights residents clash with Karen Bass over response to warehouse fire: ‘Who can yell the loudest’

Source: New York Post

Boyle Heights residents shouted down Mayor Karen Bass and blasted Lineage Logistics executives Thursday night as weeks of an unbearable stench from a burned-out warehouse boiled over into a furious community meeting. More than three weeks after the June 17 fire tore through Lineage Logistics’ nearly 500,000-square-foot cold-storage warehouse, hundreds of frustrated residents packed Stevenson Middle School demanding answers about the roughly 85 million pounds of food left rotting after the blaze knocked out the facility’s refrigeration. The mood inside the packed auditorium was summed up by signs reading: “We’re being poisoned.