The Guardian | "Life for some of the immigrants cleaning up wildfire-stricken LA"

Dr. Rachael Jones, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health professor in the Department of Environmental Science, was interviewed by The Guardian about potential health risks to workers engaged in the clean-up and reconstruction efforts after the recent southern California wildfires.

“There’s a really wide variety of materials (in the burn zones),” said Rachael Jones, an exposure scientist and professor in the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health’s environmental health sciences department. “They’re the ones that I’m most worried about, because it’s just completely uncontrolled. They’re really at the mercy of the people who bring them to the site.”

Read the article in The Guardian.