made significant progress Sunday<\/a> in battling the fire, but full containment remains unclear.<\/p>\nBoyle Heights<\/p>\n
At the city\u2019s smoke relief center set up at Pecan Recreation Center, Ashley Campos, 18, said her family left their home on Hicks Avenue near the fire because of health concerns. Campos said her 44-year-old mother has asthma, her 9-year-old brother has epilepsy, and her 68-year-old grandmother is battling cancer.<\/p>\n
Campos said the family lives about two blocks from the warehouse and could smell smoke inside their home. They looked into buying an air purifier but found them either too expensive or unavailable for immediate delivery.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe didn\u2019t want to even risk it,\u201d Campos said of staying home. Her father has remained at the family\u2019s house \u201cjust in case anything happens,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Campos said the family has struggled to obtain an air purifier and has heard similar concerns from neighbors. \u201cIt\u2019s really hard,\u201d she said. \u201cMy dad tried looking for one, but he couldn\u2019t find them.\u201d<\/p>\n
Downtown L.A.<\/p>\n
Wil Blake, who lives a block from Walt Disney Concert Hall in downtown Los Angeles, said he woke up Sunday morning to the smell of \u201csoot and smoke\u201d in the air, which reminded him of last year\u2019s wildfires.<\/p>\n
Blake said he keeps his windows open because his air conditioner has been out of service in recent weeks. He needed to shut them after noticing the smoke. He also wore a mask outdoors and went to a nearby Planet Fitness because he \u201cneeded to get some filtered air.\u201d<\/p>\n
East L.A.<\/p>\n
At Yia Caffe, a coffee shop a few blocks from the warehouse fire, manager Leo Miguel said the smoke has been affecting both customers and employees. Miguel said many customers are opting to grab their drinks and go rather than linger outside as smoke drifts through the neighborhood.<\/p>\n
The smoke smells \u201clike chemicals and plastic,\u201d Miguel said, adding that it leaves his mouth feeling dry and makes it \u201chard to breathe.\u201d Business has slowed since the fire began Wednesday, he said, and conditions don\u2019t appear to be improving.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t think it\u2019s getting better,\u201d Miguel said. \u201cIf anything, it\u2019s getting worse.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"From Dodger Stadium to downtown Los Angeles and the Eastside, Sunday was marked by periodic smoke from a…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":883735,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5123],"tags":[2529,358818,7611,1582,276,8468,246,5025,316,2961,224,2444,5337,148399,8030,358819,5996,358817,358820,358821],"class_list":["post-883734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-air","tag-ashley-campos","tag-block","tag-ca","tag-california","tag-customer","tag-family","tag-fire","tag-home","tag-la","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-times","tag-losangeles","tag-many-question","tag-miguel","tag-nasty-smell","tag-part","tag-periodic-smoke","tag-smoky-air","tag-wil-blake"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116790885359803757","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/883734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=883734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/883734\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/883735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=883734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=883734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=883734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}