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A snow berm left by this week’s storm obscured the camera’s view into the nest.

The van got stuck on a sand berm and its two occupants ran off, investigators said.

They have also installed thousands of sandbags, K-rails and compost filter socks — a type of berm — to keep dangerous debris from flowing into storm drains and out into the ocean.

The strong waves would be life-threatening conditions for swimmers and surfers, officials said, and would submerge sand berms.

Clearing the burned plants, amending the fire-scarred soil so it wouldn’t repel water, and buying new plants, landscaping cloth, berms to hold the soil and irrigation lines cost more than $26,000.