At the fierce community meeting held on Wednesday, hundreds of San Garbrier Valley residents face -to -face in the face of state and federal officials in the state and federal officials, asking about how the local entertainment area became a dangerous place in the dangerous waste in Eaton’s fire in the community. Essence
The Environmental Protection Agency started from the Altadena Burn area to the dangerous waste transportation dangerous garbage in Lario Park 15 miles in Irwindale. The Rock District was officially known as Lario’s on -stage area and was owned by the US Army Engineering Corps. It was not rented to the Los Angeles County Park Department until this month.
At present, this 5 -acre location is the location of the workers who protect the gear. They are organizing potential dangerous household items (including paint, bleaching agents, asbestos, and lithium ion batteries). These items cannot be sent to the garbage landfill.
State Senator Susan Rubio (D-Baldwin Park) and several local mayor said they learned about the use of EPA’s Irwindale website from news reports.
Duarte, Azusa, and residents in nearby cities said they were angry. They were not located by trucks to the place near the popular leisure area by trucks, including the San Gabriel trail (San Gabriel River Trail). Some people say that they are worried that toxic chemicals or other fire fragments will be immersed in air, soil or water.
Officials from EPA and California institutions deal with environmental protection and toxic substance control. Residents are taking safety prevention measures, but they are repeatedly interrupted by the audience. They shouted, “We don’t want it!” And “Find another place!”
“Once there is a frustrating community, it is difficult to return it.”
On one occasion, a woman stood up from her seat and asked officials if they were willing to send their children to school near such a place.
Yes, Katie Butler, the head of the state’s toxic substance department, said: “Dangerous waste sounds terrible, because sometimes this is why experts must deal with it correctly.”
Tara Fitzgerald, commander of the institutional incident, said that EPA is working at a 30 -day deadline to remove all dangerous wastes from Eaton and Palisade’s fire -fighting area so that the army can safely remove rubble rubble safely Essence
Fitzgerald (Fitzgerald) residents of the frustrated Pacific Palisades last week said that this process may take several months.
EPA was informed of “through the White House order” to speed up the 30 -day evacuation work, and EPA live coordinator CeleSte McCoy said in the testimony of the Los Angeles County Supervisory Board this week. McComi said that cleaning may take less than six months, but this is an estimate.
She said, “Similarly, this is a bit unknown.” “Its scale is larger than what we said before.”
Several mayor, including Rubio and Cesar Garcia including Duarte, repeatedly put pressure on Fitzgerald to understand whether it can be extended by 30 The deadline of the sky, or at least is it possible to move EPA to the lithium ion battery to another place.
“I don’t know we can re -evaluate the deadline for the deadline.”
Fitzgerald said that EPA chose IrWindale website because it was large enough to meet their needs and because it could use it. Other potential locations near the combustion area, including rose bowls and St. Antita Park, are being used for firefighters and relief.
The home waste of Palisid’s fire will be located in the truck of the Tesga Ranch in Maliba. Fitzgerald (Fitzgerald) said that EPA is looking for other processing locations of two fires, including Altadena Golf Course and Irwindale Speedway.
Kathryn Barger, director of Los Angeles County, recalled on Tuesday that Trump met with her and other local officials when he briefly visited Los Angeles last week.
Bagga said: “EPA must start yesterday.”
EPA’s contractor deleted dangerous materials in a house in Altadena on January 29.
(Christina House/Los Angeles Times)
The cleanup work began in the combustion area.
EPA spokesman Anna Drabek said that each material was placed in the container at the burning site. She said that the asbestos -containing waste was sealed into two layers of polyurethane bags, and it was covered into a plastic container with a lid, and the liquid (such as bleach and oil) was poured into the drum.
Load the items to the pile bed truck to drive to Irwindale. Drabek said that the truck was parking many times inside the facility to drop batteries, bleach and propane in a separate area.
Drabeck said: “There is nothing in openness, there is no open luggage, there is no dust, there is nothing this.” “Anything in the bag has several layers between the actual soil. We never want to contact these materials.”
The waste will not stay in Lario forever. Drabeck said that each type of material will be sent to other permanent facilities, and the agency is looking for options in California and other states.
Fitzgerald said that EPA has installed lining to prevent toxic substances from being immersed in the soil. She said that the agency conducted soil testing before starting and would test the soil again before leaving.
Drabek said that there are eight air quality monitors around the surrounding area, spraying three times a day to suppress dust.
After 2023 wildfires in Mao, Hawaii, EPA transported waste to a shooting ground on an island of about 10 miles from Bern. About 2,200 buildings were destroyed in that fire, and EPA’s cleanup was about four months.
Jennifer Roman, Duarte, attended the meeting with her Sister. She said she was worried that the waste would be transported in more than six cities to reach the place. She said that the meeting was so noisy that it was difficult to understand how to protect residents or workers.
When Roman talked about government agencies, “I don’t know why we should trust them.” “Don’t they always lie?”
Times workman David Zahniser contributed to the report.
