Lab tests may help explain high levels of benzene in water after recent California wildfires In August, a massive wildfire tore through the San Lorenzo Valley north of Santa Cruz, Calif., ...

Why are there water advisories related to neighborhoods burned by the Palisades and Eaton fire? Here's a guide to ...

Hartley and others have stated that benzene has a banded absorption spectrum in the ultra-violet; adopting that principle, I conjectured that benzene had an ultraviolet fluorescence. I have ...

The advisory warns that fire-related contaminants such as benzene — a chemical with the potential to cause cancer — may have entered the water system. The Pasadena Water and Power Department ...

After the wildfire that destroyed Paradise in 2018, testing found benzene concentrations in drinking water had spiked to more than 80 times levels that California health officials say are ...

Pasadena and Sierra Madre residents can now use their taps after water quality officials lifted the do-not-drink notices Friday night.