How could all these mansions be so toxic?
The ones with electric cars and solar panels with lithium battery storage back-up , maybe?
Because the EPA said so!
Might be the older ones had asbestos siding ynder their modern siding.
“How could all these mansions be so toxic?”
Consider who lived in them.
You just have government define toxicity downward
Every home or building that burns across the nation could be declared "toxic."
I was hit head on while driving around a curve next to a small lake (teenagers lost control on a slippery rainy night). Totaled my car, and their engine block shifted - shearing the oil pan. Some of the oil leaked off the road into the lake, and the police called out the hazmat people. I don't think it takes much for something to be called toxic.
> How could all these mansions be so toxic? <
Maybe Botox is toxic.
Girl Scout cookies
Furniture, plastics, carpeting, insulation, fiberglass, garage items, etc, etc, etc. but probably the most toxic of all, Hollywood and California women’s cosmetic drawers.
Lots and lots of asbestos. Even in things like floor tiles and drywall tape.
The burning byproducts of the inks on all that money?
Partially combusted plastics.
Heavy metals (such as lead from solders).
Lots of loose fiberglass (shards could be injurious to wildlife)
That's enough to start. It would be a lot. The sad part is that it is likely more will be rinsed into the ocean if they delay than if they get to it.
I have doubts about this story too. Sounds like Gavin and his friends at FEMA are just trying to shift the burden.
I read or watched something on X that most of these houses each has its own septic system. Typically they will be decades old. Rebuilding one and meeting code that close to the ocean will cost millions. The old systems will have to be removed first. It will be a total mess.
When we have to shut down the road and have a hazmat team in full gear come out to pick up a chlorine container that fell off a pool service truck you know the bar is low for toxicity standards.
Celebrity toxicity. I knew it.
Yeah, how did those occupants survive all that toxicity?
Oh, maybe they were affected - they voted Dem, Etc.