San Francisco: schools and cable cars to close over smoke from Camp fire
by Julia Carrie Wong from Environment | The Guardian on (#431ZT)
Thursday saw air pollution levels climb to unhealthy levels, making San Francisco's air worst in the world
Schools in the San Francisco Bay Area have been cancelled for Friday and residents warned to stay inside as smoke descends from wildfires hundreds of miles away, producing air quality levels worse than notoriously polluted cities in India and China.
"The Camp fire in Butte county generated a tremendous amount of smoke," said Kristine Roselius, a spokeswoman for the Bay Area Air Quality Management District. "That smoke is just pouring into the Bay Area right now."
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