Boyle Heights residents outraged after LAPD tows vehicles amid warehouse fire emergency

After nearly two weeks of emergency vehicles, the smell of rotting food and a massive warehouse fire impacting Boyle Heights residents, some families are now facing extra financial strain after their vehicles were towed by Los Angeles police during the initial firefighting efforts. Cell phone video shows the moments when nearly 10 vehicles were towed during the emergency response, all of which say they were not parked illegally when it happened. "That's not fair, man," Martin Ramirez can be heard saying in the video as he pleads with an LAPD officer last Tuesday, nearly a week after the fire first broke out . "That's not me. I didn't cause the fire. ... It's not my fault, too. I ask you for time." The officer apologizes, but Ramirez's car still gets towed, along with several others belonging to his customers. He says that the weight of it all, as their lives were turned upside down by the Lineage cold storage facility fire, made him cry. Ramirez owns an auto repair shop near the warehouse and says that he was willing to move the cars to make way for the emergency vehicles when they were instead towed and impounded. "Why don't you guys give us time to move the car?" Ramirez asks before the officer tells him that they "need to work" and to "stop being selfish." Juan Canil is one of the residents who had his truck impounded, and says that he was charged $100 in fees to get it back. …