For months, federal officials have said post-cleanup soil testing for fire-stricken homes in L.A. was unnecessary. Now, they plan to test 100 homes destroyed in the Eaton fire.

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WASHINGTON, D.C. (KTRK) -- FEMA'S Presidential push alert that was scheduled for this week will be pushed back. Over the weekend, FEMA had announced they would be sending out an alert meant to warn ...

Federal officials have declared they will not order soil sampling after completing debris removal on Los Angeles properties that succumbed to the region’s devastating fires earlier this year, ...

FEMA, in coordination with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), postponed the nationwide test of the Emergency Alert System (EAS) and Wireless Emergency Alerts (WEA) until Oct. 3 due to ...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency this week announced that in a reversal from its original position would be providing soil testing to 100 properties in the Eaton fire area. Last March, members ...

Gov. Gavin Newsom’s administration asked FEMA to reverse its decision to skip soil testing after federal cleanup workers remove debris from properties burned in the Eaton and Palisades fires.