Residents find toxic lead levels in soil after California wildfires – CBS News Watch CBS News In its final soil testing report, the L.A. County Department of Public Health found a sizeable number of Altadena properties had significantly higher levels of lead than what the state deemed safe. Elise Preston reports. Source link
Altadena, California — Armed with a spoon and sandwich bags, Gillien Selsby, a lifelong resident of Altadena, California, a Los Angeles suburb, digs up some of the land she’s called home for decades to be tested for toxins. Three generations of her family lost homes in January to the devastating Eaton Fire in Altadena, which,…
On Lake Avenue, in the heart of Altadena, two things stood out as I roamed the neighborhood the other day. There were still a few lots of uncleared rubble on the commercial strip, like frozen images from a lingering nightmare, but there was music as well — a buzz-saw symphony of new construction. Altadena is…