"So we tell people to take the precautions necessary to avoid exposure."
"If you smell the smoke, stay indoors with your windows and doors closed if you can. Romero also recommended setting air conditioners to recirculate air, and to take extra care if you have a respiratory disease like asthma."
"By late Tuesday afternoon, as the smoke thickened, San Francisco's Dept. of Emergency Management said air quality had reached the unhealthy for sensitive groups' threshold and encouraged residents to wear face coverings when going outside. By 5 p.m., official air monitoring sites in San Francisco and West Oakland had reached the red, unhealthy category, with PM2.5 indexes of 161 and 154, respectively."
"A low pressure system is expected to continue drawing smoke from the far-northern wildfires down the coast into Central California over the next few days, according to the National Weather Service."
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