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If you’ve ever gotten a speeding ticket, you may have been required to attend traffic school. Likewise, cause a scene at work, you may have to take anger management classes. But what if you violate burning restrictions? The local air district runs a different kind of class intended to spark good behavior. On damp, chilly nights Patrick Smith has a tradition: He builds a fire in his fireplace. Smith lives in northwest Fresno . A gas-powered furnace heats his home, but Smith still thinks of a fire as a gathering place for his family. On the evening we speak, it’s about 50 degrees in Fresno, and kindling, pokers and logs sit expectantly next to Smith’s fireplace. But there’ll be no fire: Today’s a no-burn day. Smith knows this because he checks the San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District’s website to know when the air is clean enough for wood burning. One day last winter, though, he didn’t check. It was raining and he assumed it was safe to burn. It wasn’t. “It was in fact a no
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