Soil in properties downwind from the Eaton fire burn zone did indeed have soil containing lead levels above health-based screening thresholds, Los Angeles County Public Health officials said late Friday, Sept. 12, in the agency’s final findings on the matter.

The findings confirmed reports from April, when preliminary testing showed elevated percentages of lead levels in soil samples taken from sites with still-standing homes downwind from the Eaton fire area that were a notch above public health thresholds.

The results prompted public health experts to urge caution. And while the message was tempered with the need for more study, it sparked similar testing in the Pasadena Unified School District.

That testing, too, detected elevated levels of lead, arsenic, chromium, Polycyclic aromati

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