RICHMOND — Air quality tests from a metal scrapyard fire this week were released on Friday and showed elevated levels of benzene, a chemical known to cause cancer and to damage the central nervous ...

After the October 2017 Tubbs wildfire, the northern California town of Santa Rosa was blindsided when it discovered that some of its fire-damaged water systems were contaminated with the carcinogen ...

Officials have said that after the Camp Fire in California’s Butte County, water in Paradise now contains benzene, a toxic compound linked to cancer. Cleanup could take two years and cost $300 million ...

RICHMOND (CBS SF) – The fire at a Richmond scrap metal yard that triggered an overnight shelter in place for several neighborhoods earlier this week released benzene into the air, officials revealed ...

A plastics fire in Indiana spewed various toxic chemicals into the air, including hydrogen cyanide and benzene, according to test results from the Environmental Protection Agency. Officials said ...

The deadliest and most destructive wildfire in California history, November's Camp Fire, killed 85 people and destroyed 87 percent of the 10,480 buildings in the mountain town of Paradise. Once home ...

DEER PARK, Texas (KTRK) -- ITC's tank 80-7 was just one of the tanks to catch fire. When it did, it was packed with a possible 4.4 million gallons of pyrolysis gas, a fuel blend containing benzene, ...

Reporting from PARADISE, Calif. — The drinking water in Paradise, Calif., where 85 people died last year in the nation’s worst wildfire in a century, is contaminated with the cancer-causing chemical ...

The discovery was as surprising as it was ominous. Weeks after the Camp Fire roared through Butte County last November, devouring entire towns, officials made an alarming find: The Paradise drinking ...