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L.A. Times reporter gets tested for lead after covering Palisades & Eaton fires
Gov. Newsom challenged the Trump administration to match the state’s investments in wildfire preparedness. In response, the administration criticized Newsom’s own funding cuts.
The Los Angeles County wildfires unleashed all kinds of contaminants once locked away in paints, plastics and elsewhere. Among the most concerning is lead, so, like hundreds of Angelenos, a reporter who covered the fires got his blood tested.
The Trump administration shut down a website with national reports on climate change. Scientists decry the move, saying it robs the public of vital information.
Fire crews started making progress on containment Sunday after the Inn fire grew to more than 500 acres Thursday night, prompting evacuations.
Two suspects are in custody following a shooting that left two dead and one in the hospital Saturday night. A third suspect is still at large.
A new study shows that only a quarter of fire cleanup workers in Altadena wore gloves, a fifth wore a protective mask, and a mere tenth donned full Tyvek suits, as required by California’s fire cleanup regulations.
Residents in the Eaton burn area and downwind can now send in soil samples from their yard to test for lead, a potent neurotoxin that’s especially dangerous for kids.
Eleven of the 23 schools in the Pasadena Unified School District have soil contaminated with dangerous levels of lead and arsenic, according to data released this week.
A group of environmental researchers is calling on the Newsom administration to step in and pay for soil testing at thousands of homes destroyed in the Eaton and Palisades wildfires.
