Responding to the 2025 Fires in Southern California

We’re grieving the devastation and fallout of the recent fires in Southern California alongside you.

The fires and their ongoing aftermath highlight the critical shortcomings CAER has been working to address. The issue goes beyond fires. Los Angeles and Southern California need to develop a comprehensive ecological approach to remediate toxic sites. This will require:

  • accessible bioremediation training program

  • community testing capabilities

  • further research into the application of nature-based pollution remediation techniques

  • the development and implementation of community climate resilience plans

We’ve received hundreds of inquiries from our community about how to proceed - and we want nothing more than to offer support in this moment. Our response is evolving to meet the requests that we are receiving.

Post Fire Remediation of
School Grounds

Were your school grounds affected by the fires?

LACOE's Schools Task Force, in partnership with the City of Los Angeles Emergency Management Department, FireAid, and the Centre for Applied Ecological Remediation (CAER) is hosting a webinar to share about post-fire remediation of school grounds on Tues, Sep 30th at 1PM PT. Learn More & Register

Interest form for Soil Contaminant Testing & Bioremediation through LA's Climate Resilience Soil Collaborative

Interest Form

Educational Content:
Post-Fire Bioremediation

Webinar & Presentations:

We’ve organized a series of events to support post-fire bioremediation efforts and education about the possibilities of post-fire bioremediation. If your home was affected, please email secretary@caer.earth

Training Programs &
Bioremediation Response

We’ve received an overwhelming amount of requests from community organizations and community partners for training on implementing bioremediation. To provide these services, CAER needs support.

What we need for trainings:

  • Funding to pay experts on our team to lead these trainings and materials including PPE, Bioregional Fungal Inoculum, and expenses of running these trainings.

    • We are in the midst of applying for federal funds to support these efforts but the future availability of these funds is increasingly uncertain, and even so, they wouldn’t be available in time to meet the requests we are getting.

  • Space - either funding to rent space, or a warehouse space with outdoor space.

  • If you’re able to offer any of these, please email info@caer.earth, or contribute directly

We’re also working to build out capacity in line with our long term vision:

  • a community pollution testing lab where we can provide low-cost or free testing

  • a full time staff providing ecological remediation planning, engineering, and implementation equitably to pollution impacted communities

  • a local bioregional fungal inocolum production facility

  • soil banking capacity

  • further research into nature-based pollution remediation solutions

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