Health concerns mount as Boyle Heights warehouse fire stretches into a week ^25.2%

Los Angeles Times - By Tony Briscoe, Kori McNair, Mack Baysinger - 6/23/2026, 10:00 AM

Negativity Bias 42.5% - Ambiguity (Equivocation) 12.5% - Availability Heuristic 11.7%

Tens of thousands of people in southeast Los Angeles County have been engulfed in a dense cloud of smoke for nearly a week as a fire continues to tear through a massive refrigerated warehouse in Boyle Heights. Toxic air has covered the San Gabriel Valley and beyond at times, as the fire continues to burn and the wind shifts the pall in... more