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Contractors for the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) remove household hazardous waste as they search through homes damaged and destroyed by the Eaton Fire in the Altadena neighborhood of Los Angeles County, Calif., on Jan. 30, 2025. Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images
LOS ANGELES—Soil samples collected from properties downwind of the Eaton Fire burn area contained elevated levels of lead, above health screening thresholds, according to the county Department of Public Health.
Health officials said some elevated lead levels were also found in the Palisades Fire area, but there was no evidence detected of “widespread contamination” in that burn area.
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