When Can You Haul Off Debris? No Answer Yet
Written by 991KBU on November 26, 2018
Assessment teams from the state are fanning across Malibu starting today … looking at destroyed houses and other damage from the fire.
It’s going to take two weeks to assess the 475 destroyed houses. … to make sure that the wreckage does not contain unexploded ammunition … paint … or other hazardous materials.
Only when a property is given clearance … can a landowner get a demolition permit.
The city is warning people not to remove ash or debris until a hazardous materials inspection is completed.
The county Health Department is requiring all properties to be inspected by the California Department of Toxic Substances Control and Los Angeles County Department of Health.
But that leads to the question … when will the first clearance reports be issued???
Will the hazmat clearances be released as they are completed … or all at once??
What will be the lag time???
Those are important questions … and the city has no answers yet.
Meanwhile .. residents sit with burned things … some of them possibly hazardous … close to their living spaces.
And … with no way to haul them off.
The state inspectors are scheduled to arrive today … having spent the last week in the firestorm-demolished city of Paradise .. in northern California.
