
Wearing a respirator, goggles, gloves and white protective booties, Shaun Kearney gazed at his house in Sunset Mesa, a coastal community next to Pacific Palisades. It survived the fires destroying Los Angeles, but the weekend forecast is for a different problem: rain.
Kearney needs to seal a hole in the roof to stop precipitation that he fears will be laced with toxins.
The hazardous chemicals belched from burning homes and