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“I’m scared and I’m angry,” said Tujunga resident Karen von Gunten, who lives within about 150 yards of the county site.

Caroline Kim Palacios said she was forced to temporarily move her 70-year-old mother, Suki Kim, out of her mother’s home next to the county site after she complained about a sore throat, burning in her eyes and lungs, and nausea in March.

A contractor is scheduled to begin spraying at the Thurston County site on Friday.

Coast Guard officials flew over the Orange County site early Friday and confirmed an oil sheen almost three miles offshore that they said was not from natural causes.

Mike Sullivan, assistant head of the technical services department, drove a Times team around the county site in June.