First Annual LA Fires Research Conference Brings Together Over 30 Studies

The UCLA Newsroom featured the LA Fires Research Conference, highlighting key research findings and panel takeaways. KABC News also attended and interviewed conference participants, including Nicole Maccalla, an Altadena resident, EFRU member, and part of the LA Fire HEALTH Study consortium. Yet despite more than 30 researchers presenting, many reporting contamination concerns, state agencies still have not advanced a meaningful contamination recovery plan or formally acknowledged contamination in standing homes following the Eaton and Palisades fires. Read more about the event here.