Associated Press | "As crews clean up from LA wildfires, some residents are furious over hazardous waste"
DUARTE, Calif. (AP) — Not far from where Ceci Carroll lives, a rock-mining company has polluted the air with dust across the San Gabriel Valley, she said.
Now, as crews clean charred remains from the Los Angeles wildfires, she worries about a new potential source of contamination: a site to process hazardous debris from the Eaton Fire. //
While crews continue their work, residents should be vigilant to what is happening at the site and ask how materials are being handled, about emergency response plans and truck routes and schedules, said Dr. Rachael Jones, professor and chair of the Department of Environmental Health Sciences and director of the Center for Occupational and Environmental Health at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health.
“The community has the right to know that information from the EPA and the Army Corps,” Jones said.