Karen Bass: “We have to do better, and we must strive to live up to those American ideals. We are better than this.”

The city and county have opened spaces for families seeking relief from the smoke, and we will continue working around the clock and doing everything possible to put this fire out completely.

I directed city departments to halt plans to rebuild the warehouse until the health and safety of the community are protected.

There's more work to do.

We're not concerned in terms of the fire spreading or anything like that. But we are concerned about the biohazard smoke. No smoke is good, but especially the smoke that could be toxic because of the chemicals that were needed to keep the…