Crews working to repair water main break near Boyle Heights warehouse fire

Fox - LA
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Jul 13, 2026
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We start with this. The water main break have flood some streets in Boyle Heights.
Yeah, the break happening yesterday near that massive cold storage warehouse fire last month
that left the odor for tons of people really, really unmanageable. Mario Ramirez is there
smelling all of that gross decaying food. Mario. Yeah, it is still in the air. Millions of pounds
of rotting food inside the warehouse. And we've been watching dozens of trucks and equipment move
into the area. We can tell you that the cleanup has been around the clock through simultaneously
demolishing parts of the fire damaged warehouse and hauling out a lot of that food. But with
millions of pounds still inside, neighbors say the odor and the frustrations are far from over.
And now take a look dealing with another issue. Surveillance video capturing the water main break
Sunday afternoon water gushing through the pavement here. This is less than a mile from
the warehouse near Branick and Union Pacific flooding the intersection with crew spending
hours digging to repair the pipe and just down the street. A much bigger problem continues
now in its 27th day since the June 17th lineage warehouse fire broke out. Crews racing to get
out millions of pounds of spoiled food from inside that cold storage facility workers spending
yesterday loading truck after truck with rotting meat. The system, the odor control systems running
24 7 to try and cut through the stench. And for people who live and work nearby, they say the
smell isn't the only issue lingering. They're now dealing with water issues, swarms of flies,
rodents and the side effects they say are stemming directly from the warehouse crisis.
Helping us please. I don't want to get the smell no more. I have a lot of headaches.
The wraps is in my garage. A lot of crap. And I tell the people and the people told me,
but I tell her I think they need a fumigation because it's too much.
Yeah. Meanwhile, the water main break temporarily left dozens of customers without water in
California water service. After we reached out, they say the broken pipe appears to be unrelated
to the warehouse fire despite happening along the same corridor and the cause of this fire
still under investigation. If we come back out here, live lineage officials have said they believe
started while a subcontractor was testing solar panels on the roof there. The city has given the
company a timeline through mid August to finish the cleanup and residents, as we've heard, say
they want it to be completed as soon as possible. For now, that's the latest here in this Boyle
Heights neighborhood. I'm Mario Ramirez back to you. Understandably really bad conditions out
there, Mario. All right. Thank you.
