ALT Screenshot from the document: The ash from the fires is toxic to breathe and to touch. It contains lead, arsenic, asbestos, and other dangerous chemicals that can have serious long-term health complications, including death. The motivation of this seminar was to help people avoid “the disaster after the disaster,” aka the public health crisis that can occur after a natural disaster when society rushes to return to normalcy. People really want concrete answers right now, but the Coalition emphasized that this is a pretty unprecedented situation, so it’s hard to give exact guidelines about distances affected and timelines for resolution.