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Much of the work to clean up smoke damage inside homes after the L.A. fires will be done by companies that specialize in this. However, there is some difference of opinion among these companies as to ...

Reza Ronaghi lost his home in the Los Angeles wildfires last week. "Not a single house survived in our two-block area," he said. Ronaghi is a pulmonologist at the University of California, Los Angeles ...

A topic we often get calls about is how folks can clean up in their homes after a fire or smoke damage. Fire in our homes is a scary thought, but it doesn’t have to be a big fire to cause damage from ...

You don’t have to live close to a wildfire to be affected by its smoke. With severe winds fanning the fires in and around Pacific Palisades, the Pasadena foothills and Simi Valley, huge swaths of the ...