Noah Haggerty

4 days ago | gazettextra.com | Ian James |Noah Haggerty

LOS ANGELES - Tap water is now safe to drink in areas served by all nine water systems where damage from the firestorms in Altadena and Pacific Palisades had prompted "do not drink" notices, state regulators said Friday. The last water utility with such a notice, the Las Flores Water Co. in Altadena, was cleared to resume delivering drinking water and lifted its "do not drink" and "do not boil" advisory on Friday, four months after the notice was issued. Copyright 2025 Tribune Content Agency.

4 days ago | dailygazette.com | Ian James |Noah Haggerty

LOS ANGELES — Tap water is now safe to drink in areas served by all nine water systems where damage from the firestorms in Altadena and Pacific Palisades had prompted “do not drink” notices, state regulators said Friday. The last water utility with such a notice, the Las Flores Water Co. in Altadena, was cleared to resume delivering drinking water and lifted its “do not drink” and “do not boil” advisory on Friday, four months after the notice was issued.

1 week ago | ca.news.yahoo.com | Tony Briscoe |Noah Haggerty |Hayley Smith

The L.A. wildfires left lead and other toxins in the soil of burn zones. Here are their health risksThe Eaton and Palisades fires released mountains of hazardous material as flames chewed through old homes layered with lead paint and asbestos, kitchen cabinets filled with cleaning solutions, and cars, microwaves and other electronic devices filled with heavy metals.

1 week ago | yahoo.com | Tony Briscoe |Noah Haggerty |Hayley Smith

Over three days in late March, four Los Angeles Times environment reporters and an editor fanned out across the Eaton and Palisades burn scars to collect 40 soil samples from residential properties: 10 in each burn area from properties where debris removal was completed by the Army Corps of Engineers and 10 in each burn area from the yards of standing homes.

1 month ago | gazettextra.com | Noah Haggerty |Sean Greene

LOS ANGELES — The California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection released updated fire-hazard severity-zone maps for Los Angeles County for the first time in over a decade on Monday, adding more than 440,000 acres to the county’s hazard zones, including a 30% increase in acres zoned in the highest severity rating.