LOS ANGELES (AP) – Kelly Ferron cleaned the windows of curtains and windows inside his daughters’ Elementary School, just half a mile from destructive palisades fire that burned the coastal enclave in Los Angeles. Cotton broom and wipes turned black.
Ash and mascara are scattered on his feet. Outside, it is on the ground with the playground.
Ferron, who recorded the videos and shared them with The Associated Press, wanted to see itself this week whether the Canon Charter Elementary School was properly cleaned before the school reopened. She was not affected.
After the most severe days of fire in the Los Angeles area, parents are dealing with the fact that Poisonous ash Burn homes and cars can be harmful to their children. This is a danger that is becoming commonplace in cities due to forest fire burns.
Kelly Ferron took her daughter to a temporary school on Friday, January 24, 2025 in Los Angeles, when she was smoking from the Palacedes Fire and waiting for the reopening of the Kenned Charter Elementary School after being affected by ash. (AP Photo/Britney Patterson)
In the Pacific Palacedes, the Canon Charter can reopen on Monday. School officials say staff are working hard to ensure that schools are clean and safe and they are confident of their decision. But some parents think the school is hurrying. They are urging authorities to temporarily relocate, while others are trying to move their students elsewhere.
“(Los Angeles Unified School District) has never faced such disaster in its history,” said Feron, who has two daughters in the school, one of which is asthma. “And I think people are really trying a lot, but our school needs a new temporary home in which classrooms and teachers are personally studying. This is the only thing that makes people feel comfortable “
In a statement, LaUSD said the staff “has worked diligently to prepare schools for a person’s return to instructions.” This includes inspecting the ventilation system, changing filters and applying air purefires in classrooms and offices, and cleaning inside and outside. An environmental advisor is inspecting the campus. The staff monitors air quality. The district has an environmental health and safety office and is following its protocol.
Kelli Ferrone is talking outside a temporary school with a group of fellow parents when their children are studying in Los Angeles on Friday, January 24, 2025 when they were smoke from Palisades Fire and canyon charter elementary after they were affected by ash. Waiting for School to reopen. (AP Photo/Britney Patterson)
Some schools are inside the advisory of “not drinking water”, including cannabis charter. This means that the fountains are closed and bottle water is provided, the district said.
The school is taking all the right steps, said Dr. Lisa Patel, a specialist and the Executive Director of the Medical Society Consortium on Climate and Health. Still, he said, “There is no zero danger.”
Ash is the toxic soup of burnt cars, electronics, batteries, construction equipment, paints, furniture and every other type of personal equipment. It contains pesticides, asbestos, plastics and lead, all of them are more at risk.
Patel said, “Children often have a handful of hands and their bodies are growing rapidly in these early a few years, and therefore they can be more sensitive to this type of pollution,” said Patel, Patel said. – “There will be a threat to the exhibition for a while.”
Some materials form chemical compounds that react to burning.
Scientists do not yet know the effects of the long -term health effects of large -scale urban fire exhibitions, such as in California this year or in 2023 Mao, air fire. Targeted After that, he did not open again for two months. But some chemicals have been linked to heart disease and lung problems, while exposure to minerals such as magnetite, which can be made on fire iron. Alzheimer’s disease.
In Pasadina, Emily Staffe is trying to reduce the risk for her 11- and 14-year-old children, including Blair High School this week, including a middle school. He ensured that he raised the mask. In an email to parents last week, Pasadina Unified School District said that about 38 tonnes of outdoor debris has been removed from the campus, and they will open only after “strict cleaning and cleaning and environmental tests”.
Stoof said she relys on the district to work in its career, but she wants more information.
“Did they test the quality of the air? Did they test ash samples? Were the ash samples from inside the school, in the hallway, from outside the school?” She thinks with astonishment. The quality of air inside and outside schools? I would like to see it. I want to know what was clean. ”
On January 15, 2025, a school in Altidina, California, looks at the Eaton Fire and the Gym of the Destructed Jungle (AP Photo/John Locker, File)
PUSD did not answer AP questions.
Patel said it is difficult to know how long it will remain in the toxic substances of the fire, but it may be a few months. Heavy winds like Santa Anas can fly them away where they can enter the soil and underground water.
Plastic, especially plastics, can last longer, said Dr. Alan Shapiro, a medical affairs officer at Alta Med and American Academy of Pediatrics. “And we need to remember that the fire is still going on. We still have the burning material. As a communities. Capture And clean, that ash will move again, he said.
The Long Fellow Elementary School in Pasadina is about to reopen next week, but Tanya Raees has not yet intended to send her children back. The school is about two miles away from where the house of Eaton had rented the house. Even despite school security measures, “my intestine is not saying,” he said. “They should not be around the area. This is very quick.”
Her family is living in West Hollywood, and she is looking for schools, where children can read for a while. She is also considering home schooling, but it is still pulling it out.
It is difficult for parents because they understand children all the way to school.
“We have passed through many different ways, whether it be the jungle fire smoke or the pandemic disease,” said Patel. “When children leave school, it is also harmful to their health. It affects their learning, it affects their social emotional development at the time of crisis, their sense of relationship and the community. –
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AP reporter Melina Waling in Chicago cooperated in the report.
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