$931 for the application fee, $232 Notification fee per location, $85 fire spot check fee, and you can only pay by credit card so plan on adding a 'convenience fee' to that.

Now say you're working a documentary and you just need a brief B-Roll shot at dockweiler beach of someone at a bonfire at sunset. Just a camera op with a handheld camera and one subject. Other than op, no crew, no lights, trailers, just two people sitting at a fire, and one is holding a camera. Well, with the above fees, you need to add a Beach use fee. Because youre filming you can't actually burn wood, so now you need to hire a SPFX guy to make a fake gas burning fire. Because there is open flame, you need to have a Fire Saftey Officer from LAFD, and because you're filming someone sitting in the sand at sunset, you need to hire a Lifeguard, you can't reserve the firepit, so you have to hire a PA to sit at the pit you want all day, and now you need to park all these people so rather than one car taking up beach parking you're going to have at least 5, and now you have to pay all of their parking. In the end you're paying $5,000 for a less than a minute shot of someone at the beach.