The Bay Area Air Quality Management District has extended its air quality advisory through Thursday due to the possible presence of smoke from the Old Fire throughout the Napa Valley.
The air district originally issued the advisory on Tuesday evening as the fire spread. The first advisory was for the North Bay as a whole but has been pared down to just Napa County.
Isolated pockets of elevated air pollution levels are possible near the fire, but are not expected to exceed the national 24-hour standard, the district said.
BAAQMD is quick to not that this is not a Spare the Air alert, but smoky, hazy skies may be visible and the smell of smoke may be present in the valley through Thursday.
Glad its not a spare the air alert. Is everybody aware that the homeless population is exempt from spare the air day regulations. The homeless can have fires if they are cooking or need to keep warm. Regardless if its a spare the air day. In Concord they can even have fires on our public sidewalks. What kind of third world Betty Crocker nonsense is this?
I’m not homeless, but I am exempt from these regulations the BAAQMD give out because they’re a joke.
So the folks at the Army unit based along the golf course thought it would a good idea to have a controlled burn/fire fighting exercise a few days ago and pumped all kinds of smoke into the air. I wonder why the commanding geniuses didn’t just send their fire crews to fight a real fire. If their goal was to get rid of grasses and weeds, all they needed to do was hire the goat guy. Thanks for not thinking about your neighbors, guys.