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After some recent intense wildfires in Northern California, scientists tested samples of singed soil and were disturbed by their findings: It was laden with a cancer-causing metal called hexavalent chromium.
Wildfires can leave behind carcinogenic heavy metals in soils for months, or even years, after a burn, Stanford researchers wrote in a study of blazes in California published this week.