Tag Archives: Smoke

Fire managers in Yosemite National Park are making efforts to reduce smoke from multiple fires in the park. https://www.nps.gov/yose/learn/news/fire0826.htm

Yosemite National Park announces Yosemite Valley, Wawona Road, the Mariposa Grove of Giant Sequoias, the Merced Grove of Giant Sequoias, Hetch Hetchy, and other areas will remain closed to all visitors through Sunday, August 5, 2018 due to continued unhealthy smoke impacts and ongoing firefighting operations. The park will continue …

Dangerous Air, an investigation by NPR’s California Newsroom into the rise of western wildfire smoke and the extent it harms health, is based on more than a decade’s worth of data. To learn more about its findings, Valley Edition Host Kathleen Schock spoke to Alison Saldanha, the data journalist who …

Yosemite National Park announces that the park will close to all visitors and vehicular access due to significant smoke impacts and hazardous air quality throughout the park. All park entrance stations and roads will close beginning at 5:00 pm tonight, Thursday, September 17, 2020. https://www.nps.gov/yose/learn/news/yosemite-national-park-to-close-due-to-significant-smoke-impacts-and-hazardous-air-quality.htm

Last year, the western states were hit with a double-whammy of natural disasters: Not just the COVID-19 pandemic, but also a historically long and intense wildfire season that blanketed the region with plume after plume of noxious smoke. The confluence of those two was deadly: A study published recently in …

In 2020, the Creek Fire and other blazes throughout California billowed so much smoke into the San Joaquin Valley that, at times, the sky turned brown and ashes accumulated on cars and sidewalks like snowflakes. We know long-term air pollution is bad for our health, but what can we expect …

So far in 2020, thousands of wildfires have torched a record-setting 3.2 million acres in California. If that makes this wildfire season unprecedented, here and throughout the West Coast, so is our region’s resulting smog. In a press conference on Monday, Valley air officials said: Don’t expect the air to …

Visitors are being ordered to evacuate some parts of Yosemite National Park by noon on Wednesday due to a nearby wildfire. The Ferguson Fire has consumed over 36,000 acres southwest of the park and is only 25 percent contained. Park officials have announced they’re evacuating Yosemite Valley as well as …

The controlled fire planned at Castle Air Base has been canceled, according to the Merced County officials. Earlier accounts from fire officials were corrected on Wednesday by Merced County CalFire … Click to Continue »

The controlled fire planned at Castle Air Base has been canceled, according to the Merced County officials. Earlier accounts from fire officials were corrected on Wednesday by Merced County CalFire … Click to Continue »

Passengers on an Allegiant Airlines plane had to exit onto the Tarmac at the Fresno Yosemite Airport today after the cabin of their plane filled with smoke. Flight AAY514 landed shortly after noon today on one of Allegiant’s daily runs from Vegas to Fresno. Shortly after landing the plane ran …

Three teens were jailed Tuesday afternoon after they allegedly beat up a man they planned to smoke marijuana with, Merced police reported. Officers responded to the 2800 block of Park … Click to Continue »

An Atwater duplex caught fire at just before 4 p.m. Wednesday, July 26, 2017, in the 500 block of Mendocino Court, according to Battalion Chief Jane Schmidt of the state Department of Forestry and Fire Protection. … Click to Continue »