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Creek Fire, California, 2017 Under the Microscope

Charred Woody Shrub

This is from the Creek/Sylmar fire in Los Angeles, California in 2017. This is a full view of an environmental tapelift from a home near the Creek fire. It includes a wide variety of household dusts along with a charred fragment from a woody shrub.

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