As parents in Los Angeles County prepare to send their children back to the schools in wildfire impacted areas that are still standing, parents are wondering how safe they are.
As schools across wildfire impacted areas of Los Angeles begin to reopen, parents have concerns about toxic ash that could be harmful to their children. Kelli Ferrone's daughters' school, Canyon Charter Elementary, could open as soon as Monday. But after cleaning the campus just a half mile from the devastating Palisades Fire herself, Ferrone told The Associated Press she would rather it temporarily relocate rather than quickly reopen.
Children often have more hand-to-mouth behavior and their bodies are rapidly growing in these first few years, and so they can be more sensitive to this type of pollution,' Dr. Lisa Patel, a pediatrician and executive director of the Medical Society Consortium on Climate and Health, told the AP. 'There will be a risk for a while to come in terms of exposure.
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