“The fire's coming down the mountain on one side, and it just jumps so quickly from tree to tree … with a snap of your fingers, it's blazing with flames 20 feet in the air,” LA Times reporter Anita Chabria tells smerconish about the Western wildfires.
Officials in Northern California are warning residents to stay indoors due to widespread hazardous air quality from the thick smoke produced by wildfires raging across the region.
The Placer County Public Health and the Placer County Air Pollution Control District issued an air quality advisory Thursday, forecasting hazardous smoke impacts and warning residents to stay indoors. 'use strict';CNN.Videx=CNN.Videx || {};CNN.Videx.mobile={};CNN.INJECTOR.executeFeature.then {CNN.VideoPlayer.
Video shows town leveled by wildfire in California 00:54"Sad to say, the prediction is correct," Ann Hobbs, associate planner at the Placer County Air Pollution Control District, told CNN. Hobbs said officials had anticipated a change in the wind would bring poor air quality and smoke to residents living in the area."Avoid all unnecessary outdoor activity," Hobbs said, adding that the air quality is the worst the area has seen all year.
— Placer County August 6, 2021 On Friday afternoon, air quality measurements from the EPA's AirNow website showed air quality readings for PM2.5, the fine particles produced by wildfire smoke, up to 921 in Chester, California, far beyond the 300 considered"hazardous." The air quality index in the town of Paradise was also hazardous at 602.
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