How to monitor Central Valley air quality as fires burn

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- The entity supra Fresno was obscured by haze Monday afternoon.

And successful Reedley, the mountains are hardly disposable down this curtain of smog.

The heavy fume from the June Lightning Complex Fire and the Basin Fire, which continues to rage successful the Sierra National Forest, is disposable crossed the valley.

"The fume is precise bad. I mean you aftermath up coughing and you tin odor it each nighttime long," Darlene Frady said.

This interactive representation from Air Now shows the aerial prime successful our country implicit the past 24 hours. Lots of yellow, which is moderate.

But overnight you spot the detonation of reddish adjacent wherever the Basin Fire is burning, representing unhealthy air.

"If you're smelling fume oregon seeing ash falling, you're decidedly being impacted truthful you're going to privation to instrumentality the indispensable steps to region yourself from that situation," Cassandra Melching with the SJV Air Pollution Control District said.

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Monday evening, the upwind had pushed a batch of the unhealthy aerial retired of the Fresno country allowing radical to enactment progressive outdoors.

But starting Tuesday, the interest goes up.

"Tomorrow, we are anticipating a beardown inversion furniture coming in, a precocious unit strategy which means it won't beryllium dispersed arsenic bully truthful we could spot impacts," Melching said.

She encourages utilizing an indoor aerial purifier and changing aerial conditioning filters and don't hide your car's compartment aerial filter.

All tin assistance support you harmless from harmful particulate matter.

"PM 2.5 is truthful microscopic that it gets heavy into your lungs. It tin get into your humor watercourse and tin origin bosom attack, changeable and adjacent death," Melching said.

As the fires and vigor proceed to beryllium a interest implicit the adjacent week, radical should support themselves arsenic overmuch arsenic they tin and effort not to instrumentality successful excessively overmuch smoke.

The San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District besides has an app, called Valley Air. You tin way the aerial prime successful your country close connected your smartphone.

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