Black Cherry trees?
Mike
Cyanide fumes are typical of the burning of urethane, some rubber compounds, and several other materials.
Before someone runs off screaming “terrorism”, lets make sure that this isn’t just a typical fire with bad consequences.
The officals will try and MINIMIZE this!! I heard on the news that it “ could have been buried for years”!!! In otherwords...nothing to look at! Move on...
Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca has said investigators are probing the deaths as homicides. A source told The Times that “material that didn’t belong there” has been found at the site suspected to be where the fire started, a twice-scorched slope cordoned off by crime scene tape near Mile Marker 29 along Angeles Crest Highway.
Since cyanide is used in gold mining, and Acton and the Aliso canyon area have been mined for gold for over 100 years, it’s not hard to guess why cyanide would be there.
I’m surprised that “Officials” do not know that Acton had two gold mines, and that cyanide leeching was used to extract the gold from the ore there for many years.
Especially since a former Governor of California owned the mines.