Firefighters' blood had high levels of lead and mercury after battling LA fires, study shows

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56% : Dr. Kari Nadeau, chair of the Department of Environmental Health at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, was able to collect blood samples from 20 Northern California firefighters who came down to Southern California to help battle the Eaton and Palisades fires.

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