{"id":3953,"date":"2025-10-02T23:19:46","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T23:19:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/public-exchange.org\/usc\/?post_type=news&#038;p=3953"},"modified":"2025-10-15T23:22:40","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T23:22:40","slug":"homeowners-trying-to-rebuild-after-altadenas-eaton-fire-face-concerns-over-lead-levels-in-soil","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/public-exchange.org\/usc\/news\/homeowners-trying-to-rebuild-after-altadenas-eaton-fire-face-concerns-over-lead-levels-in-soil\/","title":{"rendered":"Homeowners trying to rebuild after Altadena&#8217;s Eaton Fire face concerns over lead levels in soil"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignfull is-style-light-gray has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-container-core-group-is-layout-82641648 wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained is-style-light-gray--1\" style=\"padding-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--70);padding-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--70)\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns aligngrid is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:55%\">\n<p class=\"is-style-default tribe-news-single-overline\" style=\"margin-top:0\"><span class=\"is-color-blue\">News<\/span><span class=\"separator\"> | <\/span><span>CBS News<\/span><span class=\"separator\"> | <\/span><span>October 2025<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n<h1 style=\"padding-top:0;padding-bottom:0;margin-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50);\" class=\"wp-block-post-title\">Homeowners trying to rebuild after Altadena&#8217;s Eaton Fire face concerns over lead levels in soil<\/h1>\n\n\n<p class=\"is-style-large is-style-large--2\" style=\"margin-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50)\"><em>Altadena, California<\/em>\u00a0\u2014 Armed with a spoon and sandwich bags, Gilien Silsby, a lifelong resident of Altadena, California, a Los Angeles suburb, digs up some of the land she&#8217;s called home for decades\u00a0to be tested for toxins.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"is-style-large is-style-large--3\" style=\"margin-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50)\">Three generations of her family lost homes in January to the devastating Eaton Fire in Altadena, which, along with the Palisades Fire in Pacific Palisades,\u00a0claimed more than 30 lives\u00a0and\u00a0destroyed more than\u00a016,000 homes in the L.A. area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button is-style-outlined tribe-button-has-icon is-style-outlined--4\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\">Read full article on CBS News<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:45%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large has-custom-border\" style=\"margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/public-exchange.org\/usc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/10\/77667691007-usp-news-eaton-fire-scorches-altadena-neighboorho-1-1024x683.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3954\" style=\"border-radius:16px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/public-exchange.org\/usc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/10\/77667691007-usp-news-eaton-fire-scorches-altadena-neighboorho-1-1024x683.webp 1024w, https:\/\/public-exchange.org\/usc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/10\/77667691007-usp-news-eaton-fire-scorches-altadena-neighboorho-1-300x200.webp 300w, https:\/\/public-exchange.org\/usc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/10\/77667691007-usp-news-eaton-fire-scorches-altadena-neighboorho-1-768x512.webp 768w, https:\/\/public-exchange.org\/usc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/10\/77667691007-usp-news-eaton-fire-scorches-altadena-neighboorho-1.webp 1320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Photo source: Rob Schumacher, USA TODAY Network<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group aligngrid is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"is-style-small is-style-small--5\" style=\"margin-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--30)\">Filed under<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span class=\"c-tag-list\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"c-tag-list__item t-category c-tag-list__item--green\">\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/public-exchange.org\/usc\/news\/?_practice_area=climate-sustainability\" class=\"c-tag-list__item-link\">Climate &amp; 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