![]() ![]() Wood or charcoal makes no matter to her 8-months-pregnant sister Brenna Johnson. “Now that I’m an adult and not a kid, I appreciate (the charcoal) more,” she said. Grayson Morris’ wife Aiden remembers coming to Corona Del Mar as a teen, when everyone would compete to see how high their flames could get. It would really bum me out if we didn’t have something like this in Huntington.” “I feel really thankful, I live less than a mile from here, I smell the fire at night,” she said. ![]() Jenna Flowers hopes the charcoal rule stays in Newport and doesn’t seep into Huntington. “That’s OK, I can still go down the street and enjoy it here.” “I live in Newport Beach, I have to come to Huntington Beach to enjoy the wood-burning pits,” she said. It’s so cool because I have my kid, and I can show him stuff I used to do all the time.”Īrora spent the past decade going to the pits at Corona del Mar, but no longer. Todd Miller and 14-year-old son Blake were in town from Idaho, and decided to extend their stay just a bit longer to watch the sun set in Huntington Beach. “It would be a shame to remove them,” she said. The no-action means the issue won’t be heard again this year. The ban came earlier this year after the South Coast Air Quality Management District restricted open-burning, concerned about the ill effects of wood smoke.įire-ring backers hoped the passage of the bill would make it harder to get rid of the rings, a long tradition along the Southern California coastline that brings family and friends together to gather around with S’mores and hot dogs in hand. “It allows us to come down here for some nice family time.”Ī bill that would have required cities or counties to obtain a permit from the California Coastal Commission before removing or restricting the use of beach fire rings stalled in the Senate Appropriations Committee on Thursday – meaning Newport Beach’s charcoal-only rule remains. “I think it’s a more pleasant environment with just the charcoal,” said the Corona del Mar resident. “I just think it’s sad they took it away from the visitors and the community.”Ībout eight miles down the coast, Grayson Morris snuggled his 4-month-old son Malone, happy that the charcoal used at the pits isn’t causing smoke to float out of the pit. “It makes me so mad,” she said of the charcoal-only pits in Newport Beach, where she has lived for more than a decade. Annette Arora sits around the warm fire ring on the sands at Huntington State Beach on a recent night as the sun dips into the ocean, hot with emotion. ![]()
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