Even though it’s hot, don’t go to beaches or on hiking trails, say LA officials - LA Daily News

LOS ANGELES — With potentially record-setting heat on tap for the weekend, local officials are pleading with residents to avoid flocking to closed beaches and trailheads to take advantage of the taste of summer in defiance of COVID-19 social-distancing mandates.

“It’s getting warmer in Los Angeles — and when it gets warmer in Los Angeles, we are a coastal city, we tend to head to the beach, we tend to head to the trails,” Los Angeles Police Department Chief Michel Moore said. “We like to be outdoors. And yet, as we know, in the nonessential activities, we’ve needed to close trailheads. We’ve needed to close the beaches.

• FILE – In this March 28, 2020, file photo, Los Angeles police officers patrol a sparsely populated Venice Beach boardwalk in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill, File)

• A man walks past the V along Ocean Front Walk at a closed Venice beach in Venice on Tuesday, April 21, 2020. (Photo by Keith Birmingham, Pasadena Star-News/ SCNG)

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• LAPD wearing masks due to the Coronavirus Pandemic walks past others wearing masks at Venice Beach in Venice on Tuesday, April 21, 2020. (Photo by Keith Birmingham, Pasadena Star-News/ SCNG)

• A closed muscle Beach along Ocean Front Walk due to the Coronavirus Pandemic at Venice Beach in Venice on Tuesday, April 21, 2020. (Photo by Keith Birmingham, Pasadena Star-News/ SCNG)

• A LAPD truck drives past closed businesses along Ocean Front Walk due to the Coronavirus Pandemic at Venice Beach in Venice on Tuesday, April 21, 2020. (Photo by Keith Birmingham, Pasadena Star-News/ SCNG)

• Barriers block off a closed path due to the Coronavirus Pandemic at Venice Beach in Venice on Tuesday, April 21, 2020. (Photo by Keith Birmingham, Pasadena Star-News/ SCNG)

• A man walks past closed businesses along Ocean Front Walk due to the Coronavirus Pandemic at Venice Beach in Venice on Tuesday, April 21, 2020. (Photo by Keith Birmingham, Pasadena Star-News/ SCNG)

• People gather for food at one of the only open businesses along Ocean Front Walk due to the Coronavirus Pandemic at Venice Beach in Venice on Tuesday, April 21, 2020. (Photo by Keith Birmingham, Pasadena Star-News/ SCNG)

• A woman wearing a mask walks past closed businesses along Ocean Front Walk due to the Coronavirus Pandemic at Venice Beach in Venice on Tuesday, April 21, 2020. (Photo by Keith Birmingham, Pasadena Star-News/ SCNG)

• A man eating walks past closed businesses along Ocean Front Walk due to the Coronavirus Pandemic at Venice Beach in Venice on Tuesday, April 21, 2020. (Photo by Keith Birmingham, Pasadena Star-News/ SCNG)

• A woman wearing a mask walks past closed businesses along Ocean Front Walk due to the Coronavirus Pandemic at Venice Beach in Venice on Tuesday, April 21, 2020. (Photo by Keith Birmingham, Pasadena Star-News/ SCNG)

• A bird sits along a rail in front of a closed lifeguard tower at a closed Venice beach due to the Coronavirus Pandemic in Venice on Tuesday, April 21, 2020. (Photo by Keith Birmingham, Pasadena Star-News/ SCNG)

• A woman sits in the snd past a closed lifeguard tower at a closed Venice beach due to the Coronavirus Pandemic in Venice on Tuesday, April 21, 2020. (Photo by Keith Birmingham, Pasadena Star-News/ SCNG)

• A man on a bike takes a picture along a closed Venice beach due to the Coronavirus Pandemic in Venice on Tuesday, April 21, 2020. (Photo by Keith Birmingham, Pasadena Star-News/ SCNG)

• Joggers run along a closed Venice beach due to the Coronavirus Pandemic in Venice on Tuesday, April 21, 2020. (Photo by Keith Birmingham, Pasadena Star-News/ SCNG)

• A man on a bike takes a picture along a closed Venice beach due to the Coronavirus Pandemic in Venice on Tuesday, April 21, 2020. (Photo by Keith Birmingham, Pasadena Star-News/ SCNG)

• Joggers run along a closed Venice beach due to the Coronavirus Pandemic in Venice on Tuesday, April 21, 2020. (Photo by Keith Birmingham, Pasadena Star-News/ SCNG)

• The poppies are in bloom in and around the California poppy reserve in Lancaster, CA Thursday, April 2, 2020. The poppy reserve parking is closed due to the coronavirus outbreak, however, local residents may hike into the trails as long as proper personal distance is maintained. (Photo by David Crane, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)

• The poppies are in bloom in and around the California poppy reserve in Lancaster, CA Thursday, April 2, 2020. The poppy reserve parking is closed due to the coronavirus outbreak, however, local residents may hike into the trails as long as proper personal distance is maintained. (Photo by David Crane, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)

• The poppies are in bloom in and around the California poppy reserve in Lancaster, CA Thursday, April 2, 2020. The poppy reserve parking is closed due to the coronavirus outbreak, however, local residents may hike into the trails as long as proper personal distance is maintained. (Photo by David Crane, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)

• Visitors to Mt. Baldy play in the snow as they ignore no snow play signs and no parking signs in the area Thursday, April 16, 2020. All trails in the area are closed and no snow play is permitted due to the coronavirus pandemic. (Photo by Will Lester, Inland Valley Daily Bulletin/SCNG)

• Del Cerro park and the surrounding trails are all closed due to the Covid19 outbreak. (Photo by Chuck Bennett, Contributing Photographer)

“There’s areas of Los Angeles we’re asking people not to congregate,” he said. “We’re asking people to exercise social distancing so that we can cut down this threat of the COVID-19. To date, our efforts have been to advise, counsel and direct. And I have to say the vast amount to Angelenos have been compliant, and they have avoided those congregations. And when they’ve been approached by officers, they’ve honored their direction and guidance.

“As we come upon this weekend, and we see the increased temperature and we see other parts of this region opening their spaces, I know that there’ll be opportunities for people to think, ‘Why not here?’ and ‘Let’s just go out there.’ I’m going to ask everyone to exercise that social contract of our own responsibility and hold ourselves accountable and avoid those nonessential activities.”

He said residents can still go outside, but they need to avoid major common areas and crowds.

“Save the police the awkwardness of us having to admonish you and advise and direct you for something that you already know,” Moore said. “With that, our men and women can stay focused on public safety.”

The heat wave could prove extra difficult for people without air conditioning, particularly since the usual places residents can retreat — such as movie theaters or shopping malls — are closed due to the coronavirus crisis.

Mayor Eric Garcetti said if temperatures in select areas, most notably the hotter areas of the San Fernando Valley, reach potentially dangerous levels for people without air conditioning, the city may open cooling centers.

“If we do have triggers that go beyond the normal triggers that we have even in the pre-COVID-19 days, we are looking at cooling centers this weekend,” Garcetti said.

He noted that extreme heat can become life-threatening to some people, particularly seniors.

He said the city’s Department of Recreation and Parks is considering possibly cooling center location, because if they open, “we’ll have to do it, of course, with physical distancing.”

The county’s public health director, Barbara Ferrer, said the nice weather and growing calls from some people for a lifting of public health orders shouldn’t lull people into thinking they can flock to beaches.

“It’s very important — even with the good weather — that people do not congregate together outside,” she said. “So enjoy the outdoors alone or with other members of your household. And this means please take a walk, go for a jog or sit outside in your yard and allow your children to be outside and enjoy this beautiful weather. But you need to do it as a household and not to congregate in places and spaces that are beautiful but will defeat our need for us to keep our distance still.”

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