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Smoke and soot sullied the Eliot House D entryway yesterday after a fire there damaged a couch and sent scores of Eliot residents scurrying outside for safety...
...roads. Palm trees exploded; $1 million homes seemed to combust spontaneously. At the beach, black smoke hung over the surf, and in downtown Los Angeles a steady "snow" of flake-size ash fell. Elsewhere the embers glowed red and started new blazes. In many areas, day became night as soot obscured the sun, while a permanent "sunset," the orange glow of not-so-distant flames, eerily lit the horizon...
...vent located directly above the two bathroomstalls is covered with a gray, soot-like filth. Asimilar substance can be found in gratesthroughout the police department...
...Soot, the Unlikely Killer...
...Environmental Protection Agency and the Harvard School of Public Health estimate that up to 60,000 American deaths a year are caused by particles of soot -- an old-fashioned form of air pollution generated by factories and diesel trucks -- even though soot levels seldom exceed legal limits. Most victims are children and elderly people with respiratory problems, and asthmatics of all ages...