South Bay watermen boat in supplies to Woolsey Fire victims
Paddling ashore a SUPSquatch loaded with donations at Paradise Cove are Bryan Toal, Seth Bergstrom and Justin McComas. Photo by Jeremy Brilliant (BrilliantImages.com) Ryan Harris was waxing his surfboard Saturday morning in the El Porto parking lot when he looked across the Santa Monica Bay toward Malibu and saw what he described as “a volcano erupting.” The Woolsey fire as it appeared from Hermosa Beach midday Thursday. Photo by Betsy Ryan Then he went surfing and then to work at Earth Technologies in Torrance, where he builds environmentally friendly surfboards. While working, he chanced upon an Instagram video posted by big wave surf legend Laird Hamilton. The post showed Hamilton’s Point Dume house surrounded by fire. Hamilton and a friend had ignored orders to evacuate, and saved his and a neighbor’s home with water from his pool. “I didn’t realize until then how serious the fire was. I messaged him asking what people needed and said I’d drive a truck up that evening,” Harris said. Hamilton responded with a wishlist of basic human needs plus pet and horse food. But he cautioned Harris that Pacific Coast Highway and other roads into the Point Dume-Malibu area were closed. “I…
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