Soil testing is on the “to-do” list for many still trying to recover from the January wildfires. But it can slip down the priority chain as people focus on finding housing or dealing with insurance claims.

An event tomorrow (Saturday, Sept. 20) in Altadena’s Loma Alta Park aims to make testing easy and accessible for those who want it. Soil health experts from USC’s CLEAN project and Los Angeles County Department of Public Health will be on site to show people how to collect soil from their homes for lead testing. Samples can then be brought back to the park.

Angela Giachetti is an event organizer with the recovery group the Department of Angels . The group formed to help survivors of the Palisades and Eaton fires, and surveyed nearly 2,000 of them this summer.

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