Officials in California distributed sandbags, prepositioned rescue swimmers and told residents to have their go-bags ready as ...

Urban wildfires like LA’s make harmful chemicals from burning plastics and electronics that can make indoor air dangerous for months.

California’s burn scars braces for heavy rain amid flash food fears - Evacuation warnings were issued ...

Contra Costa Health has responded to a Martinez Refining Company report that chemicals and combustion byproducts from the ...

Contra Costa County says a range of harmful chemicals were released, including some that pose risks for cancer and ...

Obviously, a fire of this magnitude ... when lithium-ion batteries burn they release “hydrogen fluoride, hydrogen chloride and hydrogen cyanide, as well as carbon monoxide, sulfur dioxide ...

The fire had burned about 80 acres and was 10 percent ... One destroyed home smelled more acrid than the other; another more like sulfur, that one more woodsy. Again and again, I was struck ...

The creepy glow was caused by the sulfur, officials said ... with vapors or substance may cause severe injury, burns or death. Fire may produce irritating, corrosive and/or toxic gases.” ...

It wasn’t just one universal stench of burned metal. The scents shifted, ever so subtly. One destroyed home smelled more acrid than the other; another more like sulfur, that one more woodsy.

Toxic chemicals often found in trace amounts were detected in much higher levels a few days after the Eaton fire in Altadena and ... Many of the 7,000 homes that burned were older homes painted ...