/ Christopher Cappa Content for UC Davis en /news/researchers-find-carcinogenic-chromium-6-palisades-altadena-fire-cleanup-zones <p>A carcinogen with potentially serious impacts on human health was found in neighborhoods in the months after the 2025 Los Angeles County wildfires and may have spread to communities as far as six to nine miles downwind from the fire zones, according to newly published work by University of California researchers.</p> June 01, 2026 - 9:52am Katherine E Kerlin /news/researchers-find-carcinogenic-chromium-6-palisades-altadena-fire-cleanup-zones