For months, federal officials have said post-cleanup soil testing for fire-stricken homes in L.A. was unnecessary. Now, they plan to test 100 homes destroyed in the Eaton fire.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A worker wearing protective gear cleans up toxic debris at a home destroyed in the Eaton fire in Altadena. (Allen J. Schaben / Los ...

Nancy Ward, the head of CalOES, left office on Dec. 30. She had publicly begged FEMA to test for toxic substances after the ...

Federal officials have declared they will not order soil sampling after completing debris removal on Los Angeles properties that succumbed to the region’s devastating fires earlier this year, ...

Federal officials are expected to announce that FEMA will pay to test soil for lead at homes destroyed by the Eaton Fire, marking a major reversal, according to reports.

The EPA announced that it would test soil at 100 parcels in the Eaton fire area reversing its stance from immediately after ...

FEMA, in coordination with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), postponed the nationwide test of the Emergency Alert System (EAS) and Wireless Emergency Alerts (WEA) until Oct. 3 due to ...

In a remarkable reversal, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is expected to announce that the Federal Emergency Management Agency will pay for soil testing for lead at 100 homes that were ...