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If you’re feeling a little kumba ya right now, it could be because you’re reminiscing about the good ‘ol days<\/a>\u00a0when you went to the beach, built a blazing bonfire, \u00a0sang songs, talked, ate wieners and s’mores, and\u00a0filled your shoes with\u00a0sand. California’s air quality rules nearly did away with the old-time tradition\u00a0of building a fire, but the California Coastal Commission and newcomers in recent elections such as Newport Beach City Council have said that bonfires at beaches are important to Californians and they should stay. Previously, Newport Beach officials launched an effort\u00a0to remove bonfire pits and went so far as to require visitors to use charcoal instead of wood last year. They even paid charcoal stewards to hand out pamphlets and enforce the charcoal only rules. Facebook petitions, heated newspaper columns, bonfire rallies and legislative efforts to save the wood-burning fire pits must have paid off. At Newport Beach’s Jan. 13, 2015 council meeting, members voted 5-2 to revert the pit\u00a0rules\u00a0back to allowing wood. Next, Carmel by the Sea is trying to tackle its beach bonfire situation which seems out of control due to a lack\u00a0of\u00a0dedicated rings to place the fires in (you could just go down to the beach and build a bonfire on the sand in a certain area.) And the beach capital, San Diego, struggled to keep its rings when city budget cuts threatened removal. A grassroots movement raised money in an effort that successfully kept them. Fighting to keep bonfire rings– \u00a0it’s the pits!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" If you’re feeling a little kumba ya right now, it could be because you’re reminiscing about the good ‘ol days\u00a0when you went to the beach, built a blazing bonfire, \u00a0sang songs, talked, ate wieners and s’mores, and\u00a0filled your shoes with\u00a0sand. California’s air quality rules nearly did away with the old-time tradition\u00a0of building a fire, but […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18828"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18828\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}