#PALLET FIRE IN COMPTON CALIFORNIA WINDOWS#
The AQMD advised anyone who smells smoke or sees ash to limit exposure by remaining indoors with windows and doors closed, and to avoid vigorous physical activity. In the aftermath of the fire, the South Coast Air Quality Management District issued a smoke advisory for nearby areas, to remain in effect through this afternoon, noting that winds from the southwest were expected to increase as the day progresses and neighborhoods directly downwind of the fire “may experience very unhealthy air quality at times on Friday.”
“And it jumped into the neighbors’ on that side, where they have buses, and … over 20 buses got burned,” Hernandez said. Then the mattress factory caught fire and it jumped onto this business, and it just started spreading like crazy. The charred structures were in the area of Alameda Street and East Rosecrans Avenue. “And that fire jumped into the business behind us, and it jumped from that business to the mattress factory. At least three homes were destroyed Wednesday after a fire at a Compton pallet yard spread to nearby structures. Limited details right now, check back for updates. “The homeless people that live in the alley, I guess they burn wood at night to keep warm,” Elias Hernandez said. 18K views, 34 likes, 6 loves, 106 comments, 87 shares, Facebook Watch Videos from WKRG: WATCH LIVE: A pallet fire in Compton, California. “You see that second pole? It caught fire, and that’s when it fell and it just started catching fire from there … and it just started jumping all over the place.”
“They burn their food and they cook,” Hernandez said.
Her neighbors thought she was still in her bedroom when the blaze was raging behind her home, prompting firefighters to take down a metal fence and remove the metal bars from the windows to make sure she was not trapped.A source within the Compton Fire Department told the Los Angeles Times that the call initially came in as a “pole fire” involving Southern California Edison equipment.Ĭhristian Hernandez, a co-owner of H&H Pallets along with his brother Elias, told KTLA5 that he believes the fire that heavily damaged his business was started at a homeless encampment in a nearby alley. "We called them back out, we noticed it and called them back out on the back corner of the house."īut it was not just the fire that damaged Irving's home. "A lot of wires down in the back, burning on the exterior, a hole in the roof, it was still burning today," Nila Hagan said. She said she will be staying with family for at least a few weeks. Janice Irving's Compton home of 52 years was lost in the fire. Irving, who is legally blind, cannot see much of what happened to her home of 52 years, but her sister said there was a lot of smoke and water damage on the inside and some fire damage on the outside. "I don't want to lose my composure, but it's hard to contain." "I'm speechless," Janice Irving, an 82-year-old resident who also lost her home to the fire, said. Firefighters responded to a call in the 1200 block of North Rose Avenue around 5 p.m. Neighbors eventually found a place for Marrufo to stay for the night with the assistance of the Red Cross. A massive fire at a pallet yard destroyed several homes in Compton Wednesday evening. "I just told him, if we you don't find you nowhere, you gonna come stay at my house," she said. He said nobody came by to see if he was OK or if he needed help, leaving neighbors like Jackie Venters very upset. The structure was burned beyond repair, leaving the senior with kidney disease to sleep in his car.
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