Updated: Mon, Dec 21, 2020, 5:53 pm
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Pedestrians photograph and observe the dark sky from the Palo Alto Baylands during a Spare the Air Alert on Sept. 9. Photo by Magali Gauthier.
UPDATE: The Bay Area Air Quality Management District has issued a second consecutive Spare the Air Alert for Tuesday, Dec. 22, due to unhealthy weather that may lead to poor air quality if wood burning takes place.
The Bay Area Air Quality Management District has issued a Spare the Air Alert for Monday, Dec. 21, which bans the burning wood, manufactured fire logs or any other solid fuel, both indoors and outdoors.
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Wood burning is banned Tuesday, Dec. 22 across the Bay Area. (Shutterstock)
NAPA VALLEY, CA The Bay Area Air Quality Management District issued its third Spare The Air Alert of the winter season for Tuesday, which bans the burning of wood, manufactured fire logs or any other solid fuel, both indoors and outdoors in the nine counties that make up the Bay Area, including Napa.
Smoke from increased wood burning is expected to cause air quality to be unhealthy, with the heaviest impacts forecast in the Santa Clara Valley due to cold overnight temperatures and light winds, according to the Bay Area Air Quality Management District, the regional agency responsible for protecting air quality in the nine-county Bay Area.
Updated: Mon, Dec 21, 2020, 5:53 pm
Time to read: about 2 minutes
Pedestrians photograph and observe the dark sky from the Palo Alto Baylands during a Spare the Air Alert on Sept. 9. Photo by Magali Gauthier.
UPDATE: The Bay Area Air Quality Management District has issued a second consecutive Spare the Air Alert for Tuesday, Dec. 22, due to unhealthy weather that may lead to poor air quality if wood burning takes place.
The Bay Area Air Quality Management District has issued a Spare the Air Alert for Monday, Dec. 21, which bans the burning wood, manufactured fire logs or any other solid fuel, both indoors and outdoors.
Air district issues second Spare the Air alert of winter season
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WALNUT CREEK, CA - AUGUST 22: Traffic on Highway 24 moves smoothly as motorist travel through a thick cloud of smoke in Walnut Creek, Calif., on Saturday, Aug. 22, 2020. With over 500 wild fires burning in California the Bay Area is inundated with un
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The Bay Area Air Quality Management District has issued a Spare the Air Alert for Monday, meaning a ban on burning wood, manufactured fire logs or any other solid fuel, both indoors and outdoors.
The alert is the second of the winter season, prompted by predicted colder overnight temperatures and light winds that could lead to deteriorating air quality due to smoke from increased wood burning.
Bay Area Spare the Air alert issued for Monday due to smoke
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A woman walks her dogs near Jack London Square in Oakland in September under smoky skies, near the height of the devastating wildfire season. Another Spare the Air alert has been issued for Monday.Paul Chinn / The Chronicle
A Spare the Air alert is in effect for the Bay Area on Monday. That means wood burning is banned for a full 24 hours.
In a tweet announcing the order, the Bay Area Air Quality Management District said that cool overnight temperatures and light winds were shaping up to trap particle pollution from smoke near the ground. The primary concern was pollution from people burning wood in their homes, Jack Broadbent, the the air district’s executive officer, said in a statement. There is also the possibility that offshore winds could blow air pollution from the Central Valley into the Bay Area.