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4 days ago |
latimes.com | Ian James |Noah Haggerty
The last of nine fire-affected L.A.-area water utilities has been cleared to resume delivering safe drinking water, and has lifted its “do not drink” notice in Altadena, state water officials say. After the January firestorms, such “do not drink” and “do not boil” advisories affected an estimated 23,000 water customers in Pacific Palisades and Altadena.
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1 week ago |
latimes.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.
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1 week ago |
latimes.com | Tony Briscoe |Noah Haggerty |Hayley Smith
On the heels of the Eaton and Palisades fires, among the most destructive urban wildfires in U.S. history, federal and state disaster agencies have refused to pay for soil testing to ensure fire-related contamination no longer remains in thousands of now-empty dirt lots across Los Angeles County.
The L.A. wildfires left lead and other toxins in the soil of burn zones. Here are their health risks
1 week ago |
latimes.com | Tony Briscoe |Noah Haggerty |Hayley Smith
The 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. In the wake of the fires, federal officials broke from the decades-long tradition of testing soil in wildfire burn areas in California to determine whether and when it is safe for people to come home.
A 'calamity waiting to unfold': Altadena residents with standing homes fear long-term health effects
4 weeks ago |
latimes.com | Noah Haggerty
On Jan. 7, two residents on opposite sides of Altadena — Francois Tissot, a Caltech professor who studies the geology of ancient Earth and our solar system, living in the east side of town; and Jane Potelle, an environmental advocate living in the west side — fled the intensifying red glow of the devastating Eaton fire. The inferno devoured home after home, unleashing what experts estimate to be tons of dangerous metals and compounds, from lead to asbestos to the carcinogen benzene.
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