In a letter to Los Angeles city and county leaders, Lineage, the operator of the Boyle Heights warehouse that burned for a week, said the owner of the solar panels atop the building demanded that crews delay demolition ahead of the Fourth of July weekend.
“This is unacceptable,” Lineage wrote in its letter to Mayor Karen Bass and County Supervisor Hilda Solis. “Public safety is our number one priority, and every hour of delay is an hour we can’t mitigate against active fire flare ups, remove debris, address the smell, or clean up the site for the people of Boyle Heights.”
Lineage added that it was ready to demolish the building when it received “correspondence demanding that we stop demolition of the site” from the solar panel owner, Altus Power. In a statement, Altus said “multiple parties joined in asking Lineage to appropriately preserve and not destroy relevant evidence during its site remediations.”…