Redondo Beach Pier reopens after evacuation that delayed BeachLife Festival - BERITAJA

The Redondo Beach Pier reopened Sunday afternoon, hours aft constabulary and metropolis officials ordered its removal for reasons rule enforcement has declined to disclose.

The Redondo Police Department issued its first removal bid astatine about 11 a.m. done the city’s alert system.

“Police Activity connected the Pier. Anyone successful the area of the pier is requested to evacuate safely,” the connection read. “Catalina [Avenue] betwixt Torrance [Boulevard] and Beryl [Street] are closed. Please enactment distant from the pier area until further notice.”

The section issued an update connected X astatine 11:57 a.m. saying that the pier would stay closed until further notice.

At 2:21 p.m., the section sent retired another message done the city’s alert strategy saying that constabulary activity had concluded and that pier and its surrounding area were erstwhile again unfastened to the public.

Redondo Beach City Councilmember Brad Waller weighed successful connected the removal successful the comments conception of BeachLife’s first postponement announcement on Facebook.

“There was a threat made to the pier, and the area was evacuated to let the constabulary and dogs to clear the area,” Waller wrote. “Police are still going complete the pier area and person expanded to BeachLife. There was nary threat made to BeachLife, but retired of an abundance of caution, they want to guarantee that the area is safe earlier thousands of group enter. The pier area and BeachLife abstraction were searched, and thing was found. BeachLife should beryllium fresh to unfastened and proceed.”

The Times has reached retired to the Redondo Beach Police Department for much information.

The removal came connected the past time of the Redondo Beach-set BeachLife Festival, which was scheduled to unfastened astatine noon and characteristic performances by My Morning Jacket, Peach Pit, Sheryl Crow and James Taylor.

In a social media announcement, organizers for the show said the commencement of Sunday’s arena would beryllium delayed astatine slightest an hour.

“Safety comes first. In practice pinch our nationalist information professionals successful the City, retired of an abundance of caution, we person coordinated to temporarily hold doors until 1 p.m. owed to ongoing constabulary activity connected the Redondo Pier adjacent Torrance Boulevard,” BeachLife wrote successful the statement.

In a subsequent post that went unrecorded astatine 1:43 p.m., the statement said it had been fixed the all-clear to unfastened its doors to the public.

“Per the guidance of section information officials, we person been fixed the spell up to safely unfastened doors momentarily,” the connection said. “We admit the patience from our organization and look guardant to a awesome of time of sun, fun, and awesome music.”