The Los Angeles Times featured results from last Friday’s LA Fire HEALTH’s Data Brief about tap water quality in the burn areas, and spoke with LA Fire HEALTH researcher, Chris Olivares:

Researchers with the LA Fire HEALTH Study released results on Friday from 53 homes spread across the burn areas and the more than three miles surrounding them. They found only one with a toxic substance at dangerous levels: at one home, the water contained benzene, a known carcinogen, at concentrations slightly above the state’s allowable level of 1 part per billion.

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“I’m optimistic from these results,” said Chris Olivares, a professor of civil and environmental engineering at UC Irvine who has led the tap water testing part of the LA Fire HEALTH Study. “The major takeaway, I think, is the importance of flushing.”

Read the full article in the LA Times.