Emergency alerts gave "preliminary lead times of more than three hours before flash flooding conditions occurred," the agency said Bailey Richards is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been ...

The L.A. County Department of Public Health is offering its final free community blood testing event Friday to screen victims of January's firestorm for possible exposure to lead.

Back-to-school lead testing on July 22 The health department will host a lead testing clinic from 5 to 7 p.m. July 22 at 420 Mulberry St. There is no pre-registration required.