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Major automaker deploys innovative off-grid solution to aid wildfire recovery in Los Angeles: 'Make a difference'
The chargers will be available for use in Los Angeles through April. Major automaker deploys innovative off-grid solution to ...
Opinion
The Los Angeles wildfires are finally contained, but Californians still aren’t safe
The smoke may be temporary, but toxic air pollution is an ever-present danger with effects that linger for generations.
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As crews clean up from LA fires, some residents are furious over hazardous waste
The blazes that began on Jan. 7 charred thousands of buildings, cars and electronics across the Los Angeles area, creating ...
Los Angeles fire cleanup complicated by 'unprecedented' number of EVs with combustible lithium-ion batteries
California wildfire cleanup is complicated by highly combustible lithium-ion batteries found in electric and hybrid vehicles ...
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In Los Angeles, burning Teslas add to toxic mix of pollution delaying return of fire evacuees
As the smoke clears from devastating Los Angeles wildfires ... the fire victims’ return to their properties. “A lot of the cars in the evacuation area were lithium batteries,” said Jacqui ...
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In Los Angeles, people snap up air filters and wear masks against smoke pollution
LOS ANGELES (AP) — With levels of sooty air pollution far too high across swaths of the Los Angeles area, Dana Benton is sleeping with a mask on, even with her air purifier running. “My car ...
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Here are the toxic threats that emerge after an urban wildfire
As people in Los Angeles return to their devastated neighborhoods ... The blazes have reduced homes, cars and power lines to ash, releasing toxic chemicals into the air that will eventually ...
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Driving away from wildfires can be harrowing. Here’s what to do.
The cars shown in a video had been ... Kaufman said that air pollution can be extra harmful in urban fires like the ones in Los Angeles, where the pollutants are not coming just from burning ...
Los Angeles’s Ash Problem
Without rain, neighborhoods covered in fine debris from the fires must find a way to deal with it on their own.