A Wilmington neighborhood is an island in a sea of petroleum

The chemical train didn't come this morning.

So Gerardo Juarez tinkers in his frontyard in Wilmington, talking to his neighbors, trimming his nails with a pocket knife. He throws buckets of laundry water on his lawn to keep it lush for his grandchildren's soccer games.

Juarez, 64, lives on a block...

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