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Government covers up #WoolseyFire launching 43,272 tons of #Rocketdyne contamination into air.
"That’s over 43,272 tons of smoke particulate settling on thousands of properties in the shadow of #SSFL. The toxic smoke & ash landed all over Southern California ..." –Michael Collins

"The Woolsey Fire was named after a reported fire-origin address 1.9 miles away and in another county. It should have been called the Rocketdyne Fire to be accurate and to warn the public about the smoke coming their way." –Michael Collins
#WoolseyFire #RocketdyneFire #SSFL

"The Woolsey Fire started about 2:24 pm Nov. 8 on one of the most contaminated places in the state, the Santa Susana Field Laboratory (SSFL), commonly known as Rocketdyne, site of the nation’s worst partial nuclear reactor meltdown in 1959." –Michael Collins
#WoolseyFire #SSFL

"A figurative smoke screen blocking the truth about the Woolsey Fire immediately kicked in. At 1:33 am the following morning, the state EPA’s Department of Toxic Substances Control (DTSC) sent out an urgent community update on the Woolsey Fire and SSFL." –Michael Collins

"That statement, and subsequent statements issued by DTSC as to the harmlessness of the smoke and ash, are unsubstantiated and at odds with the truth." –Michael Collins, EnviroReporter
#WoolseyFire #SSFL #Rocketdyne #DTSC #CAFires

“DTSC claims – without disclosing any measurements or methods – that what’s left behind doesn’t test toxic. If past experience is any indicator, the agency will eventually release some of that data for the public to examine, & there will be all manner of problems w/ it.” –Collins

"[T]he real questions the public wants answered are

1) Was my family exposed to harmful radiation and chemicals from SSFL?

2) How could this have happened? and

3) What can I do about it now to mitigate it and so this doesn’t happen again?"

–Michael Collins
#WoolseyFire #SSFL

NASA Terra Satellite image of smoke plume from Woolsey Fire. Nov. 9, 2018
#WoolseyFire #VenturaCounty #SimiValley #ThousandOaks #LosAngeles #Calabasas #MalibuFire

In the article, "Smoke Screen – Woolsey Fire Contamination Cover-up," Michael Collins explores in depth eleven (11) points of information.

First of all #WoolseyFire should have been called #RocketdyneFire "to be accurate and to warn the public about the smoke coming their way."

"The fire may have started when electrical lines, perhaps frayed, interacted w/ the tops of oaks during winds of 40 mph in NASA’s Area II. The treetops could have smoldered until sparks or embers ignited grasses ... before really taking off towards the southwest & spreading out."

"At least 84 percent of SSFL burned launching approximately 43,272 tons of radioactive and chemically-impacted ash and smoke into the air."
–Michael Collins, EnviroReporter
#WoolseyFire #SSFL #VenturaCounty #LosAngeles

"Department of Energy (DOE) reports from 2014 document the high levels of chlorinated dioxins/furans, polyaromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), silver, cadmium and lead in its vegetation."
–Michael Collins, EnviroReporter
#WoolseyFire #SSFL #VenturaCounty #LosAngeles

"Fire swept through Area I Burn Pit with high levels of 17 radionuclides and the most deadly form of dioxin, 2,3,7,8-TCDD, at 2,684.4 times its normal background."
–Michael Collins, EnviroReporter
#WoolseyFire #SSFL #VenturaCounty #LosAngeles

"Area I Burn Pits were in 2018 Rocketdyne fire path."
–Michael Collins, EnviroReporter
#WoolseyFire #Rocketdyne #SSFL #VenturaCounty

• DTSC has these reports and knows full well about the possibility of radiation and chemicals in SSFL’s vegetation, yet still told the public the smoke was harmless.
• Toxic ash may impact properties not torched by the fire but in the fire’s impact zone.
–Michael Collins
#SSFL

2014 Department of Energy illustration of how SSFL plants suck up radiation and chemicals.
#WoolseyFire #DOE #NASA #Boeing #SSFL #SimiValley #SFV

"Testing SSFL Area IV plants for phytoremediation potential also utilizing control plant specimens." –Michael Collins, EnviroReporter
#WoolseyFire #SSFL

"A 2005 fire burned 75% of Rocketdyne, illustrating that these recurring infernos will continue to release SSFL radiation and chemical contamination every time it catches fire, further contaminating the environment and exposing huge numbers of people and animals." –Collins
#SSFL

• DTSC, DOE, NASA and Boeing all have resisted full cleanup of SSFL.
• Save for KNBC Channel 4, most media discount the toxic stew released from Rocketdyne and refuse to acknowledge that the fire started on the site, not “near” it.
–Michael Collins, EnviroReporter
#WoolseyFire

Melissa Bumstead, Oct. 3, 2018, speaks before delivering petition demanding SSFL cleanup to now Gov.-elect Gavin Newsom’s campaign headquarters in Los Angeles.
• Activists say Gov.-elect Newsom is key to a full cleanup of SSFL.
–Michael Collins, EnviroReporter
#WoolseyFire #SSFL