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A house destroyed by the Eaton Hearth (R) is seen subsequent to a different left intact in Altadena, California.

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A house destroyed by the Eaton Hearth (R) is seen subsequent to a different left intact in Altadena, California.

ZOE MEYERS/AFP through Getty Pictures

As evacuation orders are lifted, folks in Los Angeles are returning to their homes–if their houses survived. However the catastrophe does not finish when the hearth stops.

A single block and a half separates the Altadena house of Jennifer and Ed Barguiarena from full destruction. Simply down the road lies charred, flattened particles.

However for households just like the Barguiarenas — the seemingly fortunate ones, whose homes survived — an altogether totally different ordeal is simply starting.

The water nonetheless is not secure to drink, prepare dinner or wash with. There are fantastic layers of ash and mud in folks’s houses and yards. And households just like the Barguiarenas are additionally frightened about what they can not see – the chance that toxins like lead and asbestos might need drifted into their houses.

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