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Hazardous Air: Smoke Plume Stalled Over San Francisco Bay Area

The Air Quality Index readings were hovering between a 175 in Redwood City to 187 in Livermore on Saturday morning.

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Bay Area air quality officials issued a ‘Spare the Air’ alert for a record 26th straight day and warned the conditions may not drastic improve until next week.
Bay Area air quality officials issued a ‘Spare the Air’ alert for a record 26th straight day and warned the conditions may not drastic improve until next week. (CBSSF)

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September 12, 2020 at 11:00 am

SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) — First it was the COVID-19 pandemic that kept San Francisco Bay Area residents struck in their homes. On Saturday, it was a massive plume of wildfire smoke and ash stalled over the region.

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The Air Quality Index readings were hovering between a 175 in Redwood City to 187 in Livermore on Saturday morning. The vast majority of the AQI readings for all Bay Area communities fell into the red category — meaning the air was unhealthy to breathe.


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