The dark green boxes show the areas with the highest lead levels are just outside the Eaton Fire burn zone. In the Palisades, small localized areas of impact were found such as for arsenic, but no ...

Janet Scully, program manager with the L.A. County Department of Public Health, demonstrated how to collect soil as part of the department’s Eaton Fire Soil Testing Program, which kicked off on ...

Mary McGilvray, Vice President of the Altadena Community Garden, with fresh compost which is being added to the new topsoil at the garden on Friday, May 23, 2025.

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.

CBS News Los Angeles Live. University researchers are looking for homeowners near the Palisades and Eaton fire areas to participate in a soil sampling study to test for possible wildfire pollutants.

Local groups, from Eaton Fire Survivors Network, Eaton Fire Residents United and UC Master Garden Los Angeles are working with nonprofits to answer such questions as what levels of lead or other ...