🌱 Why East LA neighbors still smell the warehouse fire weeks later.
East Los Angeles, California Patch AM: a 4 min readGreetings East Los Angeles! Your go-to source for what's happening in town is here. Stay in the loop and read on. ☀️
In today's newsletter:
- Why East LA neighbors still smell the warehouse fire weeks later.
- Can you help deputies ID suspects in an East LA AutoZone burglary?
- Last chance to walk through 50 years of East L.A. music history
Today's riddle: Where do bad rainbows go? 🤔 (Answer below!)
- Saturday: Areas of low clouds, then sun, with a high of 85 and low of 67 degrees.
- Sunday: Sunny much of the time, temps: high: 85, low: 68.
- Monday: Partly sunny, with a high of 87 and low of 68 degrees. 🌶 Hot!
📰 News we're reading
1. Boyle Heights Warehouse Cleanup Still Underway Despite Deadline (mynewsla.com) — Residents of East Los Angeles and Boyle Heights are still enduring foul odors, pests, and uncertainty from the massive Lineage Logistics warehouse fire cleanup, even as officials argue over whether a 45-day deadline has been missed. City and county leaders are pressing the company to speed up food waste removal, face potential penalties, and fully address environmental and quality-of-life impacts on nearby neighborhoods. 
2. Suspects Sought in AutoZone Burglary in East LA (mynewsla.com) — A coordinated overnight burglary at the AutoZone on South Atlantic Boulevard in East Los Angeles left the store with major losses and damage, and deputies are asking for your help. Investigators released photos from surveillance footage and are urging anyone who recognizes the suspects to contact the East Los Angeles Sheriff’s Station or Crime Stoppers with tips.
3. Historian helps curate show on LA's Eastside music scene (ucr.edu) — If you care about East L.A.’s musical roots, you’ve got one more week to catch a massive exhibit on five decades of East Los Angeles sound at LA Plaza de Cultura y Artes downtown. The community-sourced show highlights bands like Los Lobos, Chicano Batman, and Thee Midniters, tracing how Eastside garage jams grew into globally influential music and political anthems.
4. Julio Escoto died in bicycle accident on 710 Freeway (newsline.com) — A 47-year-old bicyclist, Julio Escoto, was killed early Monday when a vehicle struck his bike on the southbound 710 Freeway just north of Floral Drive in East Los Angeles. The driver stayed at the scene as CHP began investigating, and legal experts quoted in the piece outline how families can seek support and understand their rights after such crashes.
5. New take on mass deportations shows Californians caught in raids — decades apart (kpbs.org) — An East Los Angeles family’s 1950s deportation ordeal is now part of a powerful new exhibit in Sacramento comparing Eisenhower-era raids with today’s immigration crackdowns. The show weaves together testimonies from people swept up in mass deportations decades apart, asking visitors to consider how policies and enforcement still shape Latino communities across California, including L.A.
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