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.

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, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A worker wearing protective gear cleans up toxic debris at a home destroyed in the Eaton fire in Altadena. (Allen J. Schaben / Los ...

Nancy Ward, the head of CalOES, left office on Dec. 30. She had publicly begged FEMA to test for toxic substances after the ...

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 ...

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.

WASHINGTON -- This is why you may have gotten a notification from the White House on Wednesday. The government tested a new national alert system that would let presidents send out emergency messages ...

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 testing of a new emergency system that will allow President Donald Trump to send messages to most U.S. cellphones has been postponed to Oct. 3, the Federal Emergency Management Agency said Monday.