South El Monte residents ordered to shelter in place as warehouse buildings burn

""It's going to be an incident that goes throughout the night because of the materials involved," Navarre said. "We have heavy equipment here that's going to help us break down the building and continue to put the fires out.""

""out of an abundance of caution," Navarre said."

A major fire ignited in two adjacent concrete warehouse buildings on the 2200 block of North Tyler Avenue at 2:32 p.m., producing a dark smoke plume and an acrid chemical odor. Fire crews deployed 112 personnel and assumed a defensive posture as explosions and sparks occurred inside the structures while metals burned. Hazardous materials and urban search-and-rescue teams responded and heavy equipment was used to break down the buildings to access and extinguish remaining fires. Shelter-in-place orders directed nearby residents to close windows, shut ventilation systems, and stay indoors; the cause of the blaze has not been determined.

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