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The clean-up after the LA fires is already revealing tensions
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A Hazmat team Identify piles of ash on their hands and knees, slowly, systematically. They are a bitch and urged debris with a shovel. They were assigned by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) To study the remainder of Altadena, a neighborhood destroyed by fires that destroyed parts of Los Angeles County last month. The crew wears a solution and gas masks while looking for pesticides, paint cans and propane tanks – anything toxic or vulnerable to the explosion. They avoid walking near chimneys, which are often the only remaining things standing on a lot of burning. They can fall into any minute. To the north, the charred mountains are waving.