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Los Angeles, CA - June 17, 2026 : Community members watch as fire and emergency crews battle a warehouse fire in Boyle Heights on Wednesday, June 17, 2026 in Los Angeles, CA. (Jason Armond / Los Angeles Times)

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The flames reached an ammonia line, which started off-gassing and led to several small explosions, according to the Los Angeles Fire Department.

Dec. 2023 photo from the Caltrans District 1 Facebook page shows work being done on the 'Last Chance Grade' south of Crescent City.

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LOS ANGELES, CA - MARCH 23, 2025: A dusk sky settles over the newly renovated Dodgers Stadium during the preseason game against the Angels at Dodgers Stadium on March 23, 2025 in Los Angeles, California.(Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times)
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FILE - In this Aug. 17, 2011, file photo, concertina wire and a guard tower are seen at Pelican Bay State Prison near Crescent City, Calif. California's high court on Thursday, Aug. 12, 2021, ruled that prison inmates cannot legally possess up to an ounce of marijuana behind bars under the state's 2016 law allowing recreational pot. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File)

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LONG BEACH, CA - May 20, 2026: First and second graders play during a mid-morning recess at William F. Prisk Elementary School in Long Beach on May 20, 2026. The American Academy of Pediatrics recently updated their policy statement for the first time in 13 years about recess and what a good recess looks like, (Genaro Molina/Los Angeles Times)

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Attendees wear "Billionaire Tax Now" shirts during a campaign kickoff event for the California Billionaire Tax Act at The Wiltern in Los Angeles, California, US, on Wednesday, Feb. 18, 2026. An influential union has introduced a ballot initiative to impose a one-time 5% tax on billionaire wealth, as a political spending committee backed by Google co-founder Sergey Brin, former Google CEO Eric Schmidt and others will support three different voter initiatives that would limit and restrict the creation of new taxes in the state. Photographer: Tim Rue/Bloomberg via Getty Images

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Irvine Police detectives arrested Kwong (Tony) Chun Sit, 53, of Irvine, left, for animal cruelty and destruction of evidence and Sit's girlfriend, Tingfeng Liu, 23 of Vista, right, was arrested for the same charges.

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PACIFIC PALISADES, CA - JUNE 13, 2026: Burned building that housed Spencer Pratt's business at 1515 Palisades Drive in Pacific Palisades, CA on Saturday, June 13, 2026. (Myung J. Chun / Los Angeles Times)

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LOS ANGELES, CA JUNE 9, 2026 -- Earl Ofari Hutchinson, 80, of Los Angeles, president of Los Angeles Urban Policy Round Table, poses for a portrait in front of a home with a sidewalk badly in need of repair along the 7100 block of 11th Ave on Tuesday, June 9, 2026 in Los Angeles, California. Hutchinson is demanding that mayoral candidates commit to a plan for repairing badly busted sidewalks. (Gary Coronado / For The Times)
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Reno, Nevada, February 7, 1936 - Reno sportsmen erected this "Los Angeles City Limits" sign just east of the California State line Thursday in a satirical thrust at Los Angeles police efforts to prevent indigent transients from entering this state. The City Limits sign has a cartoon police officer holding up his hand to say stop. Behind the City Limits sign is a sign for Nevada's Route 40. (Photo Credit: M. C. Jones / Los Angeles Times)
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Los Angeles, California, July 15, 1953 - SMOG TEST - Janet E. Dickinson operates an apparatus where gases are frozen to solid or liquid state for later analysis in a laboratory. The air pollution checkup of auto exhaust fumes and gas vapors were performed on the City Hall lawn in downtown Los Angeles, Calif., on July 15, 1953. Photo Credit: Frank Q. Brown / Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles, CA, Friday, March 22, 2024 - California Governor Gavin Newsom looks on as Jane Fonda hugs former Governor Schwarzenegger at a press event sponsored by Campaign for a Safe and Healthy California at a Ladera Heights soccer field. (Robert Gauthier/Los Angeles Times)
LOS ANGELES, CA - OCTOBER 1, 2025 -- Traffic heads north on I-405 as a new era in commuting begins for clean-air vehicles with new rules that kick solo drivers out of California carpool lanes and uncertainty over how it will impact commute times and traffic in Los Angeles on October 1, 2025. (Genaro Molina/Los Angeles Times)
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Los Angeles, Calif., November 17, 1950 - Dr. A.J. Haagen-Smit, a Dutch-born chemist at Caltech, shows how smog is produced when hydrocarbons like rubber are oxidized or burned. In this demonstration the balloon exploded when ozone, an oxidizing gas, came in contact with it. Photo Credit: Bruce H. Cox / Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles, California, February 4, 1953 - Marian E. Lent walks to work on the morning for Feb. 4, 1953, as the City Hall building is seen through the smog-filled skies in downtown Los Angeles. Photo Credit: R.L. Oliver/ Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles, California-1966- In the smog battle a Los Angeles commuter wears an only slightly satiric gas mask on October 2, 1966. Automotive experts show how a new smog device cuts down on the emission of car fumes, while testifying before the California Assembly. ( Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection/Los Angeles Public Library)

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Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson starts a Bible-reading marathon at Angelus Temple in Los Angeles, June 28, 1931. The contest will continue through July 1, with what is said to be the largest Bible in the world being used by contestants. (AP Photo)
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Los Angeles, CA - May 29, 1986 : Richard W. Miller (center) with his defense attorney (right) watch as the jury arrives to the Little League Park location as part of the espionage retrial. The park is located at Ohio Ave, and Sepulveda Blvd. May of 1986. ( Al Seib / Los Angeles Times )

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