A dozen people are still missing as crews work desperately to rein in a massive fire around Oroville, one of dozens of major blazes in California.
Southern California is being engulfed by smoke and unhealthful air from fires up and down the West Coast. The South Coast Air Quality Management District is warning that smoke and ash are likely to hit much of Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside and San Bernardino counties Thursday due to two major fires locally and smoke flowing in from Northern California blazes.
The air district’s smoke advisory said that most of the Southern California region will be affected by smoke, with the highest readings of fine-particle pollution, tiny lung-damaging particles known as PM2.5, in areas closest to the Bobcat and El Dorado fires.Smoke blowing in from Northern California “may also contribute to widespread elevated PM2.5 concentrations,” the air district said, but due to shifting winds, the smoke impacts “will be highly variable in both space and time.” The air district said to expect “noticeable smoke and ash impacts” in southwest Los Angeles County, Orange County and southwest Riverside County. The bad air is being generated by fires raging in California, Oregon and Washington that are lofting smoke into the air in a massive plume that is blanketing the entire West Coast and extends far out into the Pacific. But in Southern California much of that smoke has remained aloft. At the ground level, air quality across remained in the “good” to “moderate” range Thursday morning across most of the region, except for areas in near the Bobcat Fire burning in the Angeles National Forest north of Azusa and Glendora and the El Dorado Fire is currently burning in the San Bernardino Mountains near Yucaipa, where readings showed air quality in the “unhealthy” range.Air quality has been significantly worse in Northern California, where raging fires this week have choked the air with smoke and ash and snuffed out the sunlight, casting a gloomy, orange pall over San Francisco and other areas. Air monitoring data on Thursday morning showed unhealthy pollution levels in most of San Francisco and in other parts of the Bay Area. Times staff writers Anita Chabria, Joseph Serna, Matthew Ormseth and Joe Mozingo contributed to this report.
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