LA firefighters put out massive blazes. Now they worry that cancer might be smoldering inside them
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The Palisades Fire in Los Angeles in January ranks as the second-most destructive wildfire in Southern California history, with more than 23,000 acres and 5,000 structures burned. So many structures burned simultaneously, with so many unknown contents: plastics in furniture, batteries in cars.
Pacific Palisades was burning to ash. “As far as the eye could see, homes were on fire, everywhere,” said firefighter Joseph Field, 50, who’s been with the Los Angeles Fire Department for more than 25 years. “Nothing I’ve ever seen was like it was that night.” Field, manning a 10-inch hose line, dropped a curtain of water on a house that hadn’t caught fire – yet. Seven feet away, the neighboring home was going up in smoke. Even with goggles, the irritants in the smoke made his eyes feel like he’d been wiping them with sandpaper. “You’re using basically a cloth hood to kind of help a little bit, but you’re taking in a lot of smoke,” Field said. “You’re just eating it. You’re constantly eating it.”
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