From Baywatch to toxic watch happymamay

Through the sun’s rescue towers, the cold browsers and the volleyball players that control the bikini, Will Rogers State Beach is one of the most famous sand in the world thanks to the world’s classic classic “worship”.

But now the iconic beach surrounds the ruins of burned houses and palm trees, and its car parks are a ground to sort for dangerous waste from forest fires. Beach children have been replaced by the Environmental Protection Agency sets in Hazmat claims that are set through melted electric car batteries and other dangerous waste before being transferred from the truck to waste burials.

Palisades and Eaton fires were born an amazing amount of debris, which is estimated at 4.5 million tons. In comparison, the destroyed Maui fires in 2023 had generated about 400,000 tons, according to the American Army Engineers Corps.

These fires took three months of cleaning by the Environmental Protection Agency, which is responsible for removing dangerous waste. But now the agency hopes to end its job in Los Angeles in only one month – by February 25 – after President Donald Trump signed an executive order calling on the Environmental Protection Agency “to accelerate the wholesale removal of polluted debris and the general.”

The decision to sort through dangerous waste along the coast has pushed the protests, and with the movement of cleaning the fire wreckage at unprecedented speeds, many ask whether the ocean water will be safe for swimming and surfing.

“In this very weak place, they sort these extremely dangerous things,” said actor and environmental Bonnie Wright. “For me, this seems to be 10 steps back, because you literally put this waste closer to the beach than it is already in the burning sites.”

Mrs. Wright, who played Jenny Wizley in Harry Potter’s films, wrote a book on sustainability and is now devoted to environmental reasons. While their battle failed to move the sorting sites away from the coast in the end, it said that the activists were successful in urging the Environmental Protection Agency to transfer burning electric vehicles batteries to the Will Rogers site on the road and away from the sensitive Topanga Kreik water.

The Environmental Protection Agency said that burning vehicle batteries are a particularly dangerous challenge, but the agency has experience to deal with it. To switch waste, they need a large space with large roads enough for truck traffic – this is why the Pacific Coast Road, which extends along the beach, is more attractive than mountainous roads of mountain winds.

When the Li -Eyon batteries – especially because of the heat and flame in the wildfire – they have the ability to re -sign and explode in days or weeks, or even after months of being affected. No fires.

“We have to deal with them like the unique decree, or, as the UXO army calls it,” he said.

Although some questioned the speed at which the Environmental Protection Agency moved to clean the toxic debris, there is no time to waste it.

“We have to do it very quickly,” he said, noting that they started sorting the waste even when the fires were still raging.

“If we are late, the risk of affecting the ocean, it rises again.”

Mr. Calanog was also responsible for the EPA response to MAUI fires, which may bear evidence of how to measure what is safe and reasonable when it comes to testing water and soil samples.

Many people are concerned about the effects of heavy metal and chemicals in the air and water after fires. In Maui, nearly 18 months have passed since the fires and a small part of the surrounding coast is still closed to the audience. The Army Engineers Legion – which removes heavy debris after removing EPA dangerous waste – just ended the last distance from The Hague on February 20.

But most of Maui remained open to the local population and tourists, and the Ministry of Health in Hawaii announced eight months after the fires that coastal waters around the Hague were safe to entertain in the ocean.

However, the cleaning scale of Los Angeles fires is unprecedented and larger in the history of the United States.

La County closed the beaches over a nine miles (14 km) for weeks after the fires in January. Then the heavy rain – while helping to overcome any preserved rsus – caused muddles in the burning area and the surface flow of toxic ash and chemicals in the ocean, which leads to more closure.

Most beaches are now reopened, but there are still a valid water consulting consulting along the coast from Santa Monica to Malibu until he notes more advice. “Beach pioneers can re -create sand, but it is still recommended to stay away from the visible fire wreckage and stay outside the ocean water During any publicated ocean consultant. “

Only surfers and local surfers can reach the beaches in the burning area anyway – there is no parking lot or stops for 9 miles along the Pacific Coast road, which is blocked with trucks and workers who clean the debris.

Although some will risk more than anything to capture a good wave.

While touring the sorting site of the Environmental Protection Agency, Aniliza Mu said that she saw a browser in the water riding on the popular surfing on Topanga beach while she was watching workers across the street in treating complete prominent equipment with burning EV batteries.

Ms. Mo, who is the director of science and politics, and the quality of water in the Gulf, is a non -profitable environmental profitable for the manufacture of coastal water gatherings: “The water looked like chocolate milk with the like brown foam on it.”

She said: “It was one of those days, between storms, such as the beautiful and sunny weather types.” “Thus it was a little strange to be in the midst of destruction while we have the perfect beach day.”

Jenny Newman of the Regional Water Quality Control Council in Los Angeles in the Virtual City Hall in Los Angeles Province on February 18 said that the initial water quality tests he conducted on January 22-27 “returned better than we expected.” But the water council warned that people should follow the boycott consultations to stay outside the water near the burning site.

Dozens of scientists and volunteers from the healing of the Gulf and countless public and public agencies have experienced water and soil samples to know the chemical levels forever and heavy metals in the ocean, but toxic analysis can take 4-6 weeks and there is little data available.

At Surfrider, volunteers test the ocean water throughout the year. But their small laboratory tests the fecal bacteria – not arsenic. Now, it is very dangerous exposing volunteers in the burning areas, so the employees in partnership with Heal the Bay and the University of Southern California to treat their water samples.

“All our community members are ocean lovers. We have the same questions they have,” said Eugenia Ermankoa of the Sorvereider Foundation. “It is a source of concern, and everyone asks, when can we return? When will it be safe? I hope I have an answer.”

There is no way to browse there now – it would be very painful to look at the coast and remind what was lost. There are a lot of minerals and other debris in the waves.

“I took my desire to browse zero, not only because of the quality of the water, but just because of what happens,” said on the coffee in Topanga Canyon. He installed his first wave in 1977 at Will Rogers State Beach and his son learned to browse at the age of four and his wife at the age of sixty.

He said about the destruction along the coast: “It is the destruction of the earth for a gay person.” “This beach means something for me as well, and I am one person. There are dozens, maybe hundreds or thousands of us who use the beach every day.”

Many of Mr. White’s friends have lost their homes and said that people are shocked to find out what the landscape and the coast are now.

“Every movie you see, every movie makes anyone from any other part of the world want to come to California depends on seeing the Pacific Coast road and those beautiful homes in Malibu, along the beach. He said.” Now it is a unloading of toxic waste. “