‘It’s worse than Flint’: More than 10,000 families in LA exposed to toxic fumes due to chemical leaks into the soil

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More than 10,000 families in Los Angeles are being exposed to toxic fumes such as lead, benzene and arsenic due to chemical leaks from an old plant. 

Exide Technologies, an old recycling battery plant in Vernon near LA, closed down in 2015 after ongoing reports of dangerous chemical exposure to residents by mere contact.

But after the closure it left behind large traces of chemicals in the soil and air of homes as far as five miles away from the plant.

These chemicals are particularly damaging to children who play around in the grass outside their houses and touch contaminated soil. 

It can cause learning disabilities, brain damage and even death for those who come in contact with the toxins.

Residents of Vernon are calling this disaster worse than Flint, Michigan, after the city released a cleanup plan that is only expected to help 25 percent of the contaminated homes in the next two years.

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