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What did the Lineage warehouse fire in Washington tell us about the one in Boyle Heights?
Plumes of smoke billow from a fire at a Lineage cold storage facility in Finley, Washington in 2024. (Photo by Benton County Fire District #1)
As smoke from the Lineage warehouse fire choked neighborhoods this week, people around Los Angeles — almost certainly for the first time ever — were talking about Finley, Washington.
Finley, population 6,152, sits at a bend in the Columbia River in eastern Washington near the Oregon border. Two years ago, the town also experienced a warehouse fire, also at a Lineage cold storage facility. Multiple outlets referred to the Finley Lineage fire in their coverage of the Boyle Heights Lineage fire — in particular the sobering detail that the Finley fire took about two months to put out.
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