SF News Day Around the Bay: The Winter’s First Spare the Air Day Is Friday The New York Times just discovered that crime is worse in Oakland than in SF, some Safeway and Target stores are ditching self-checkout, and wood burning is banned Friday because it’s a Spare the Air day.
SF News Day Around The Bay: No Wood Fires For Christmas, As It’s Spare The Air Through Sunday A carjacking at Ocean View Park left a man shot, run over, and in critical condition, the Castro Indian restaurant Bhoga is soon to close permanently, and Spare The Air days are in effect through the weekend, so no wood fires for your Christmas.
SF News Spare the Air Alert Extended Through Sunday; Regional Air Quality Advisory to Go Into Effect Monday With wildfire smoke still filling the Bay Area skies, the Bay Area Air Quality Management District (BAAQMD) has extended the Spare the Air Alert through today, which was originally set to expire Saturday.
SF News Orange, Hazy Skies Return, and It’s a Spare the Air Alert for the Rest of the Week The unholy trinity of the Dixie, Caldor, and Cash fires are smoking up Bay Area skies, and a Spare the Air alert is in effect for Thursday and Friday.
SF News San Francisco Air Remains At 'Unhealthy' Levels Monday Air Quality Orange/Unhealthy. Older adults, kids & ppl w/ heart/lung disease should reduce prolonged/heavy exertion. https://t.co/GkWlfyvpeB pic.twitter.com/I7lsZvZZ3l— San Francisco DEM (@SF_emergency) October 16,
SF News Don't Even Think About Lighting An Ocean Beach Bonfire Tonight If you're thinking about celebrating the end of this week's hot temperatures with a fire in one of Ocean Beach's prison-looking fire pits, slow your roll, Sparky: Issues with Bay Area air quality
SF News Another Reason To Skip Work Tomorrow: Bad Air Here's another reason to call in sick and walk or bike to the beach tomorrow—not only will it be gloriously hot , but those high temps and low winds will create unhealthy smog
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Why Restaurants Are Exempt From Spare the Air Days It turns out that despite some confusion about this, restaurants that use wood-burning ovens and grills for cooking are exempt from the wood-fire ban on Spare the Air days, because, of course, complying
SF News Air Quality Report: Current Weather Conditions Threaten Christmas Coziness The war on Christmas is taking to the skies over San Francisco this year: current weather conditions are threatening to call for a few more Winter Spare the Air days this week, which
SF News Air Quality Report: Less Apocalyptic, Still Needs Sparing After yesterday's dangerously high air quality index, things have settled down a little bit today to the point where we don't need to fret about a dystopian future in a cool, brown city
SF News The Air Quality Police Are In Control Now Today marks the ninth (9th!) Spare the Air day in a row for the Bay Area. It was already a record when we hit day five last week, but for more than a
SF News It's The Fifth Spare The Air Day In A Row. Hopefully You Can Still Breathe. It doesn't seem deadly out there, but the stillness in the air these past few December days means that the particulate matter isn't blowing around and it's reaching dangerous concentrations around the Bay.
SF News Today Declared First 'Spare The Air' Day Of Winter Season Don't even think about lighting a fire in that fireplace tonight! It's the first Spare the Air day of the winter season today, as announced by the Bay Area Air Quality Management District,
SF News Snitches Get Stitches: 'Spare The Air' Season Starts Today Don't think you'll get a ticket for tossing another Duraflame into the fire during a Spare the Air day? Think again. Last winter, the air district received 2,316 wood smoke complaints from
SF News Weekend Weather Report: The Sky Might Try To Choke You To Death In case you are somehow oblivious to air temperature: it's hot today. Like sweaty keyboard hot. And while there's a gentle breeze keeping things from becoming simply unbearable (read: 83 degrees), that breeze
SF News First Spare the Air Day Is Tomorrow, New Year's Day You know that bonfire you and your hippie friends do at Ocean Beach every year on New Year's Day. Find other plans. Tomorrow, New Year's Day, will be the first Spare the Air
SF News Look, Just Don't Burn Anything Today, OK? Today, Thursday January 12th is the fourteenth Spare the Air day of the Winter Season. By now, you've gotten the gist of what that means: the air is cold and lung-clogging, phlegm-inducing particulates
Arts & Entertainment Post-Yule Pyre, S.F.'s Firey Christmas Tree Disposal Event, Alights This Sunday Sure, temporary holiday arborists can send their dry and withering Christmas trees to the wood chipper starting this week. But why put DPW and Recology through all that trouble for just a tiny
SF News 2012 Starts Off With A Cough And A Spare the Air Whimper If you woke up to 2012 with your mouth tasting like an ashtray, as we're sure many of you did, you can take some solace in knowing it wasn't entirely due to overconsumption
SF News Your Neighbors Will Probably Snitch On You, Flagrant Spare The Air Violators The only thing that's been more out of control than the number of Spare the Air days this season is the actual amount of nasty particulate matter floating about in all that cool
SF News Wood Burning Officially Banned on Christmas Eve Sorry, folks: tomorrow, December 24th has been declared yet another winter Spare the Air Alert by the air quality misers at the BAAQMD. By now, you ought to know the drill: no solid
SF News Stagnant Winter Weather Threatens To Ruin Christmas [Spare The Air] Another windless December day means another Winter Spare the Air Alert declared for today, Wednesday the 21st. That brings our tally to eight days without solid fuel burning this season, and as we
SF News Stubborn Weather Pattern Is Choking Us To Death [Spare the Air] Thanks to a "stubborn weather pattern", the Bay Area Air Quality Management District has declared today, Monday December 19th, as the seventh Spare the Air day of the winter season. Seven days without
SF News Second Spare The Air Day Declared As Bay Area Continues to Suffocate On Wood Smoke Tomorrow, December 8th is another winter Spare the Air day, according to the folks in charge of that sort of thing. Which means day two of not burning old furniture and duraflame logs
SF News Spare The Air Day Declared For Wednesday, Wood Burning Temporarily Banned As we warned this morning, the current chill to the air is leading to particularly particulate-heavy breathing conditions around the Bay Area. And apparently conditions didn't get any breezier today, thus: the Air
