After Boyle Heights warehouse fire, residents take environmental testing into their own hands — and more UCLA media

An estimated 31,700 workers, about 81% of whom are Latino, live in the county and city zones where a smoke advisory was issued, according to new data from the UCLA Latino Policy & Politics Institute. Yoshira “Yoshi” Ornelas Van Horne, an exposure scientist and assistant professor with the UCLA Fielding School’s Department of Environmental Health Sciences, told The LA Local that the Lineage fire is exposing how little is done to “respond to public health emergencies and disasters” in communities like Boyle Heights and East Los Angeles, areas “that have so often been referred to as environmental injustice communities.” Residents and community organizations like East Yard, Ornelas Van Horne said, are “relying on their networks and their organizing power to be able to do that on the ground sampling.” Read more about UCLA in the Los Angeles Times, ScienceDaily and others.