June 20 (UPI) -- Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass on Saturday issued a declaration of local emergency as the city continues to fight a major fire at a cold-storage warehouse in the city's Boyle Heights neighborhood.

The fire broke out on the afternoon of June 17 in a 46,400 sq m frozen food warehouse. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

The fire broke out on Wednesday afternoon and has been contained within the warehouse, but continues to burn, sending up fumes that smell of burning plastic.

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass declared an emergency Saturday to ensure the city gets the resources it needs to fight a large warehouse fire that has sent large plumes of smoke into the air.