"Every person on our street has had cancer"
By Tyler Durden: The 95,000 acre Woolsey fire which has coated Southern California
with an apocalyptic orange glow may have released a toxic stew of
radioactive particles and toxic chemicals into the air, after scorching
the land on closed-down government weapons testing facility in Simi
Hills known to be heavily contaminated from decades of experiments. Commencing operation in 1947 for Rockwell's Rocketdyne Division, a government contractor for the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC), the Santa Susana Field Lab (SSFL) has a checkered safety record, to put it lightly. In addition to several nuclear accidents - including the worst nuclear meltdown in US history, toxic materials have accumulated on-site from years of dumping, just miles from thousands of residents.