In subsequent visits to the California desert town of Hinkley, Brockovich eventually uncovered evidence linking a rash of illnesses there to high levels of hexavalent chromium found in the drinking water. Her suspicions aroused, she asked Masry permission to look into the matter further.
One day, while filing documents for a real estate case involving the utility giant Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E), Brockovich noticed that the paperwork included blood samples. Feeling sorry for her, in 1992 attorney Ed Masry offered her a clerical job at the firm.
Brokovich was eventually awarded a small settlement, but not enough to support her family with. She then moved to Los Angeles’s San Fernando Valley, where she was referred by a friend to the law firm Masry & Vititoe, whom she hired to represent her in her accident case. Shortly after her divorce, Brockovich was involved in a severe car accident that necessitated her having neck surgery. The events that followed would set her on the path to her eventual fame. They married in 1989 but divorced within a year, at which point Brockovich learned she was pregnant with her third child, Elizabeth. Now a single mother, to support her children Erin found work as an assistant at a brokerage firm in Reno, Nevada, where she met Steve Brockovich. However, their marriage eventually fell apart, and they were divorced in 1987. The young couple moved around the country for the next few years, during which time Brockovich gave birth to two children, Matthew and Katie. She also met her first husband, Shawn Brown, around this time, whom she married in April 1982. After working briefly as a management trainee at Kmart, in 1981 she quit and entered and won the Miss Pacific Coast beauty pageant. After earning her degree, Brockovich moved with a friend to Newport Beach, California.
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