The air has improved in the LA region as firefighters get blazes under control, but there are questions about how safe the air actually is.
Some gas lines were still burning in Altadena, California, after the Eaton fire passed through a burned neighborhood. Crews were working to cut off gas to the area. Smoke and ash from the LA-area fires blanketed the region. Experts suggest care while cleaning up, even far from the immediate burn zones.Air quality in Los Angeles has improved as the Palisades and Eaton wildfires get under control.
The EPA collects data for the AQI from some 4,000 air quality monitoring stations dotted around the country. But air quality can vary on a hyperlocal scale, meaning the network of official sites is"fairly sparse," says"They don't have the spatial density or indeed sometimes the temporal density to tell us what's really happening on the kind of localized level that really matters to people," he says..
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