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For the last few weeks, he said, they’ve received reports of raids in more suburban areas, including Simi Valley and Thousand Oaks.

The Simi Valley Freeway sliced 200 housing units out of Pacoima, and the Foothill Freeway in the 1960s destroyed 900 housing units in Pasadena’s Black area, displacing about 2,600 to 2,700 people.

As workers gather up the wreckage, tons of highly toxic ash, contaminated soil and other wildfire debris have been taken to four local landfills: Azusa Land Reclamation Co. in Azusa, Calabasas Landfill in Agoura Hills, Simi Valley Landfill and Recycling Center in Simi Valley, Sunshine Canyon Landfill in Sylmar.

Another explosion that day killed a person in Simi Valley.

California has seen a spate of accidental fireworks explosions leading up to the Fourth of July with a Thursday morning detonation killing 1 in a Simi Valley home and a similar incident critically injuring two people in a Bay Area residence.