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  2. Sacramento County tightens home fireplace rules for the ... - AOL

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    The Sacramento Metropolitan Air Quality Management District’s “Check Before You Burn” season runs from Nov. 1 to Feb. 28 to curb air pollution created by wood smoke.

  3. List of burn centers in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Harlem Hospital Center — New York [36] Jacobi Medical Center — Bronx [36] Kessler Family Burn/Trauma Unit of Strong Memorial Hospital of University of Rochester School of Medicine – Rochester. Nassau University Medical Center - Nassau County Firefighters Burn Center — 2201 Hempstead Turnpike, East Meadow. Staten Island University Hospital.

  4. Rapidly-spreading fires are threatening to burn through ... - AOL

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    May 14, 2024 at 9:22 PM. Dangerous wildfires have scorched tens of thousands of acres and are closing in on multiple Canadian towns, forcing thousands of evacuations and degrading air quality. The ...

  5. Carr Fire - Wikipedia

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    The Carr Fire was a large wildfire that burned in Shasta and Trinity Counties in California, United States. The fire burned 229,651 acres (92,936 ha; 359 sq mi), before it was 100% contained late on August 30, 2018. The Carr Fire destroyed at least 1,604 structures (at least 1,077 were homes) while damaging 277 others, [1] becoming at the time ...

  6. Burn ban extended to Friday amid poor air quality in ... - AOL

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  7. Mosquito Fire - Wikipedia

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    Mosquito Fire A pyrocumulonimbus cloud rises from the Mosquito Fire on September 8, 2022 Date(s) September 6, 2022 (2022-09-06) – October 22, 2022 (2022-10-22) (47 days) Location Placer and El Dorado County, California Coordinates 39°00′22″N 120°44′42″W  /  39.006°N 120.745°W  / 39.006; -120.745 Statistics Burned area 76,788 acres (31,075 ha; 120 sq mi; 311 km 2) Impacts ...

  8. Air quality worsens as drought forces California growers to ...

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    In August 2021, the San Joaquin Valley air district accepted $178 million in new state funding to incentivize alternative methods of managing ag waste, including grants to repurpose dead or ...

  9. Rim Fire - Wikipedia

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    The Rim Fire was a massive wildfire that started in a remote canyon in the Stanislaus National Forest in California's Tuolumne County.The fire ignited on August 17, 2013, amid the 2013 California wildfire season, and burned 257,314 acres (402 sq mi; 104,131 ha; 1,041 km 2) in largely remote areas of the Sierra Nevada, including a large portion of Yosemite National Park.