air quality

Air quality on Thursday will be unhealthy for a widespread part of Southern California near the Bobcat Fire burning in the San Gabriel Mountains.

Southern California’s awful air quality is finally showing signs of improvement. Air quality maps showed better conditions early Thursday into Friday, with a large swath of moderate air quality for Los Angeles and Riverside counties. Unhealthy levels are still reported near the Bobcat Fire in the San Gabriel Mountains, but skies filled with smoke earlier this week appeared to...

People in the Bay Area were likely breathing a litter easier Wednesday morning as air quality improved thanks to an offshore weather system pushing wildfire smoke out of the region.

“If you are exposed for 12 hours of smoke in the air, then that is like 12 hours of continued smoking,” says Dr. Zab Mosenifar, a critical care pulmonologist at Cedars Sinai Medical Center.

The ongoing poor air quality has people in the Bay Area looking for relief, including repairing or installing in-home air filtration units – if they can be found.

If the smoke and ash you’re seeing when you look outside belie the official air quality index for your area, the explanation at least in part is that the network of detectors was not designed for tracking all the pollution from distant but massive wildfires. Much of the grimy orange tainting the skies above the Metro LA area is...

Another day of horrible, unhealthy air in the Bay Area and people are scrambling to buy whatever might help. But when it comes to you or your house, what should we be doing?

Rob Mayeda explains why the sky turned from blue to orange due to the wildfires.

The brownish-orange glow appearing around the Bay Area looks to be a combination of wildfire smoke and ash, some of which is making to the ground.

For people living on the West Coast, poor air quality and smoky conditions have been a fact of life in recent weeks. We have some tips from our friends at NBC Los Angeles about how to keep yourself as healthy as possible when living with smoke and ash.

Key state and federal air hazard monitors are offline in Louisiana after Hurricane Laura hit the heavily industrialized coast.

Smoke from wildfires as far away as north of the Bay Area is resulting in poor air quality in Southern California, where skies took on an eerie orange glow as temperatures continued to sizzle. Several fires in the Greater Bay Area joined to form wildfire complexes that have devastated the region. Homes burned, hundreds of people are under evacuation orders…

Firefighters were able to move deeper inside the fire-engulfed USS Bonhomme Richard on their third day of battling the flames

Dozens of people, both sailors and civilians, suffered minor injuries in the blaze, reports NBC 7 military reporter Bridget Naso.

Sheena Parveen’s Air Quality Report for July 14, 2020.

A former sail who once served on the ship told NBC 7’s Omari Fleming that watching it burn is like losing a family member.

Thick plumes of smoke are continuing to billow from the ongoing fire on USS Bonhomme Richard and it’s causing residents to express concerns over the air quality.

Remnants from the smoke caused by the fire aboard USS Bonhomme Richard have been reported in various parts of the county. NBC 7‘s Nicole Gomez has more info on its impact on our air quality.

NBC 7 meteorologist Sheena Parveen goes into detail on how the USS Bonhomme Richard fire is impacting our air quality.