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I’m hearing different companies make different recommendations for smoke remediation on similarly affected homes. Why isn’t there a clear set standard made available to the public in how to make our homes safe to be lived in again? This should be the number one priority of the city/government; the health and safety of its residents!
I want my friends and community to be able to return to their homes safely and as informed as possible. Environmental factors means this disaster goes beyond the scope of only the burn areas into neighboring communities as well. It all needs to be addressed for long term health and safety of the people in the area.
Our friend, a grad student at USC, was very ill from the smoke, hiding in her bathroom so that she could breathe. She doesn't have a car, so some friends went to get her and brought her to San Diego. It doesn't make sense for her and other students to clog the roads now while first responders and evacuees need to be our priority. Please provide virtual education at USC until the Eaton fire is fully contained!
These firefighters are not just first responders, they are someone’s family & friends. Everyone in my family is or was a firefighter, so I understand the need for these kinds of things. You want to make sure your family & friends are taken care of. Having access to these things could be the difference between life & death. I’m very grateful to still have each one of my family members here. They put their lives on the line to save people, as a society, as a community we need to take care of our first responders because they’re just as important & need just as much support as anyone else.
As we rely, heavily, on our firefighters to respond to our needs, in urgent and not-so-urgent events, how is it that they are denied treatment for ‘their’ suffering and potential diagnosis of a malignant neoplasm? Without our support, in making this treatment readily available to them, we are sanctioning their suffering and denying them a quality of life that they deserve.
The Los Angeles fires happened ironically during Firefighter Cancer Awareness month. We have incredible preliminary data that this stuff could save our lives, and it’s about to be unavailable in California. Unbelievable.
As a person with COPD, I know the long term effects on the lungs, from repeated times of smoke inhalation. Can’t believe that the medicine is refused. It needs to be available and affordable thru insurance or workman’s comp- I don’t exactly understand if workman’s comp wud be of any value, with this situation.
Medicine to help clear the lungs of toxin produced by various types of smoke from grass to plastics t toxin fumes is a necessity for this specific job type!