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“As long as these fires are burning, there’s just a ton of smoke in the air right now,” Sarah Rees, deputy executive officer for planning and rules at the South Coast Air Quality Management ...
The Bay Area Air Quality Management District Community Air Risk Evaluation (CARE) Program was initiated in 2004 to evaluate and reduce health risks associated with exposures to outdoor Toxic Air Contaminants (TAC’s) in the Bay Area. The program examines TAC emissions with an emphasis on diesel exhaust, which is a major contributor to airborne ...
A map of evacuation orders and warnings for the Palisades Fire in California, as of Thursday, Jan. 9, 2025. Areas in red are under evacuation orders and areas in yellow are under evacuation warnings.
The Bay Area Air District (BAAD), formerly Bay Area Air Quality Management District or BAAQMD, is a public agency that regulates the stationary sources of air pollution in the nine counties of California's San Francisco Bay Area: Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Napa, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, southwestern Solano, and southern Sonoma ...
As of Saturday evening, the Palisades fire was 11% contained and the Eaton fire, which devastated much of Altadena and is now burning mostly in the San Gabriel Mountains, was 15% contained. On ...
Orange Skies Day was a climatological event that occurred in the San Francisco Bay Area on September 9, 2020. [1] [2]The orange-colored hue in the sky was the result of smoke from the North Complex Fire (including the Bear Fire) and more than 20 other wildfires, which burned more than 2 million acres east of the San Francisco Bay Area. [3]
The Palisades Fire began in the Pacific Palisades area of the city on Tuesday. It has so far burned 17,234 acres and is at 0% containment. More than 1,000 structures have been damaged or destroyed.
Early morning on August 16, when the first thunderstorms hit, around 2,500 lightning strikes hit the Bay Area, with 200 strikes happening in 30 minutes at one point, which the National Weather Service office in Bay Area labelled as "insane". [16] Within the next 72–96 hours, over 12,000 lightning strikes were recorded over Northern California.