{"id":421295,"date":"2026-08-02T01:23:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-02T01:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/421295\/"},"modified":"2026-08-02T01:23:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T01:23:09","slug":"laco-health-officials-cautions-swimmers-away-from-several-beaches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/421295\/","title":{"rendered":"LACo Health Officials Cautions Swimmers Away from Several Beaches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Los Angeles County health officials Saturday were warning beachgoers to avoid entering the water at several locations because of elevated bacteria levels as a dangerous heat wave is expected to send more people to the coast.<\/p>\n<p>The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health issued ocean water use warnings for the following areas:<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Wilshire Boulevard storm drain at Santa Monica Beach, 100 yards up and down the coast from the storm drain;<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 East Wilshire Boulevard storm drain at Santa Monica beach, 100 yards up and down the coast from the storm drain;<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Mother\u2019s Beach in Marina del Rey, entire swim area;<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Inner Cabrillo Beach in San Pedro, entire swim area; and<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Santa Monica Pier, 100 yards up and down the coast from the pier.<\/p>\n<p>Health officials said recent water samples showed bacteria levels exceeding state health standards, increasing the risk of illness for swimmers, surfers and others entering the water.<\/p>\n<p>Recorded information on beach conditions is available 24 hours a day on the county\u2019s beach closure hotline, 1-800-525-5662. A map of impacted locations and additional information are available at PublicHealth.LACounty.gov\/Beach.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Los Angeles County health officials Saturday were warning beachgoers to avoid entering the water at several locations because&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":234483,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[19989,1785,166,1570,131,133,132,7283,30354,168246,22559],"class_list":["post-421295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-away","tag-beaches","tag-county","tag-health","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news","tag-officials","tag-several","tag-swimmers","tag-warn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=421295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421295\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=421295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=421295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=421295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}