“I feel like we’re living in a war zone, they come in so incessantly. Coming in, taking off, coming in, taking off. It’s out of control,” says Gutierrez-Hedges.
The school is beneath the flight path from Van Nuys Airport, one of the busiest general aviation airports in the country. …Since the pandemic, it’s gotten busier as more wealthy people pay to avoid the close quarters of commercial air travel.
But those extra fumes are descending upon the people who live nearby.
“Just this morning, as we’re walking outside to take my kids to school and getting in the car, I was like, ‘Cover your nose! Run to the car! Get in the car! Shut the door!’ I couldn’t breathe because of the jet fumes,” says Guitierrez-Hedges.”
https://www.kcrw.com/news/shows/greater-la/cougar-charter-flights/van-nuys-airport-pollution
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