(18 Jul 2025)
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Altadena, California – 04 June 2025
1. Large scale machinery breaks apart wildfire debris at the Army Corps of Engineers recycling site
2. Aerial view of the recycling operation
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3. SOUNDBITE (English) Col. Sonny Avichal, Army Corps of Engineers:
"So we’re at the Altadena Golf Course which is serving as the temporary debris staging and reduction site for the Eaton Fire. Well, in the Eaton area there’s six thousand or so parcels that burned. And so getting all that debris out of the community is very important."
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Altadena, California – 07 January 2025
4. A structure burns during the Eaton Fire
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Altadena, California – 08 January 2025
5. Homes burn during the Eaton Fire
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Altadena, California – 04 June 2025
6. Aerial view of debris-cleared home sites
7. Street level view of a burned and debris-cleared home
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8. SOUNDBITE (English) Col. Sonny Avichal, Army Corps of Engineers:
"All of the recyclables, such as the steel, the concrete, and the vegetative, they get brought here where they can essentially be reduced in size, loaded out on larger trucks and then be reintroduced into the supply chain."
9. Heavy machinery sorts through debris
10. Aerial view of burned tree debris being sorted
11. Trucks arrive with cleared debris
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12. SOUNDBITE (English) Col. Sonny Avichal, Army Corps of Engineers:
"I mean between the Palisades and the Eaton Fire, it’s the largest wildfire debris clean-up operation in the 250 years that the Corps of Engineers has been here. So there is a lot of debris that needs to be cleaned up."
13. Street level view of a burned down neighborhood
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14. SOUNDBITE (English) Col. Sonny Avichal, Army Corps of Engineers:
"When the Army Corps of Engineers does a large debris removal contract, this is one of the stipulations in it: is that anything that can be recycled gets recycled and reintroduced back into the supply chain. Which I think is really great. It’s great for the community and it’s really great for the environment overall."
15. Various of a worker spraying water over the debris near heavy machinery
STORYLINE:
Where the Palisades and Eaton fires scorched entire neighborhoods, there are large operations to recycle concrete and steel from fire-damaged homes.
Thousands of tons of these everyday materials are washed where they’re collected, loaded onto trucks, and sent to temporary sites run by the Army Corps of Engineers to begin the recycling process.
Metal is compacted and concrete is crushed, then shipped to recycling facilities before re-entering the supply chain for future uses.
In the world of planet-warming emissions, making fresh concrete and steel are major contributors to climate change, and industry experts said recycling these materials is a great way to recover and rebuild sustainably.
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