Posted on 12/28/2023 12:46:10 PM PST by Libloather
The South Coast Air Quality Management District has extended its residential No-Burn alert, the agency announced Wednesday. The alert is now set to expire on Dec. 28 at 11:59 p.m.
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The alert also prohibits using manufactured fire logs, such as those made from wax or paper, from burning on No-Burn days.
The notice doesn’t apply to communities above 3,000 feet in elevation, the Coachella Valley, High Desert, homes that rely on wood as the main source of heat, or low-income households without natural gas services.
“Smoke from wood burning can cause health problems. Particles in wood smoke — also known as fine particulate matter or PM2.5 — can get deep into the lungs and cause respiratory problems (including asthma attacks), increasing emergency room visits and hospitalizations,” a news release said.
South Coast AQMD’s Check Before You Burn program is also in effect until February, when particulate levels are highest.
During this time, residents are encouraged to check the agency’s website for the latest information before they fire up their fireplaces.
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Isn’t it great to have laws that say you simply CANNOT do a particular something — and then caveat it with a list of sub-groups who are allowed go right along doing the banned thing that you’ve just been told you cannot do?
“Smoke from wood burning can cause health problems.”
Nonsense. It can cause freedom problems. It’s a control issue. Eat this bug, SoCal. I bet the elites can burn all the wood they want and dare you to object.
Wood burning temporarily banned to many EV’s on fire.
But forest fires are fine.
Well, we’ve been burning wood for millennia.
How many stupid beliefs can the Left promote?
ANYTHING for Worldwide Totalitarian Government.
I’ve heard the newer wood stoves are much more efficient, but 25 years ago I lived in a cottage on the finger lakes and my neighbor burned wood all winter long which put so much particulate matter into the air it made breathing difficult the moment I stepped outside my door.
We live on the other left coast (NYS) and I’m sure Hochul aka Gov Ratface is salivating over banning woodstoves. From our cold dead hands.
Were they burning pine? That’s a ritzy area (we live about 10 minutes from there) and I know some well to do people are cheap as all blazes. Probably burning pallets!
I’d guess if you live above 3000 feet it is healthy enough after all.
Wood stoves designed for pellets are very clean and efficient. They do not fit the profile of dirtying up the air with heavy smoke. They should be exempt from this ruling too if there were any rationality to it.
Under those filthy California democrat politicians they will be burning their furniture to stay warm.
It could of been they were burning pine or something. This was on Honeoye Lake so not as ritzy as say Canandaigua. His cottage was a good 150 ft away from me so it wasn’t like we were on top of each other. I didn’t complain because I was looking to get a wood stove myself lol. Oh how I now regret giving up that place.
Hochul and Haley have similer choppers...must have had the same rabbit father!😀
about 1 in 25 people actually pay attention to these stupid proclamations.
There is no rationality among the Dems who control this state. If only we could lop off NYC from the rest of the state it would turn upstate into a moderate Red state but unfortunately that’s not likely to happen.
I bet the particulate matter is never present in areas where Hollywood stars and rich folks with 5 fireplaces live.
Not very cold in California. I’ve camped and hunted in very remote, very cold areas where I would have died without my wood burning stove. Screw them.
CALIFORNIA! Can’t burn firewood in the winter. But they will make up for it by burning whole forests in the summer!
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