Why!? Help me understand Greendot how we are forced to go to school during fires so terrible that they were considered a national emergency. So many schools were closed or closing that day. January 7th and 8th. You had literally closed other Green Dot schools those days that were just a few miles away but yet we were open. It was a scary realization of how bad the fires were getting. In the morning of that day just seeing all the accumulated ash on all the cares and grass on the floor. It was not a happy feeling needing to go to school on a day like that.
Accordin to Los Angeles times they have stated that, “On Jan. 7, as the L.A. County wildfires broke out, air samples measured “highly elevated levels” of lead and arsenic over a dozen miles downwind of the Eaton fire, according to the South Coast Air Quality Management District. The highest concentration was recorded in Vernon, about 13 miles southwest”. To think how bad the air was just a day before when fires just started. Now the 8th when the fires really began to grow so out of control. The sky looked dark red on that day. You could see the literal smoke everywhere and all the ash just coming down. What worried me was how my parents did not go to work that day and yet I had to go to school. I just did not get why it was so important or pressing to go to school in a time like that.
Los Angeles Times also stated, “ Separately, a Los Angeles-based air quality monitor supported by federal funding showed that hourly measurements of airborne lead spiked on Jan. 8 and 9, when smoke from the Eaton fire cast a pall from Altadena to San Pedro”. The government had a machine that told them per hour the measurement of how bad and worse the air quality got but yet on the 8th we still went to school and the 7th too. Did Green dot need to see how bad the fires were for a few days or did they have to see a crazy amount of houses burned down and all the smoke go all the way towards us to finally say ok now we can close schools. Or was it the fact that the LAUSD acted faster in keeping kids home at that time.
