Posted on 11/09/2014 3:56:01 PM PST by BenLurkin
LOS ANGELES (CBSLA.com) — Residents throughout much of the Southland will not be allowed to burn wood, nor manufactured fire logs, on Monday under an order issued Sunday afternoon by the South Coast Air Quality Management District.
The residential no-burn alert, which is in effect from midnight Sunday to midnight Monday, covers the greater Los Angeles area, Orange County and the Inland Empire. Such mandatory bans are issued to protect public health when a high concentration of fine-particle air pollution is forecast for the region, according to an SCAQMD news release.
The ban is not in effect for communities above 3,000 feet, nor the Cochella Valley and High Desert. In addition, it is not enforced for homes that rely on wood as the sole source of heat or do not have natural gas service. Low-income households are also exempt.
For more information, visit the AQMD’s website at www.aqmd.gov. An interactive no-burn alert map is also available on the site.
Common sense thrown out the window.
Freeze in the dark!!!
Of course. Along with members of Congress and 0bama.
Trespassing foreign nations hiding on public property also get a pass.
From the beautiful NC mountains with clean air and plenty of humidity . . . . FREEZE YOU CALI COMMIES ! !
Snoot ;o)
People should read the actual laws themselves, they really should. For example, this burning ban crap? I looked it up once - it’s restricted to corporations. Doesn’t have anything to do with family homes.
Sure, you’ve got to parse the definitions. Just like the government does when it comes after you for some nit that destroys your life. But people would rather cower than learn, and against that, even God sighs - while bureaucrats, RINOs and Democrats laugh.
There's still things like tires and plastics! :-P
I live above the 7,500 ft limit in Colorado. Those living lower get .gov hell. I have an EPA rated wood burning stove, but I think the jackboots kick doors in before asking questions. If I lived lower I would shoot first and ask questions later. The freaking .gov worker totalitarians and all that.
When the hell does L.A. get cold enough for fireplaces, anyway?
It's more of an aphrodisiac for starlets and high-school cheerleaders.
I don't understand the logic, my Sister in Fullerton said it was 93 degrees there yesterday. I guess some bureaucrat needed to justify his or her existence or job.
What is the ratio of 5.56 muzzle blast to fireplace log?
Does that mean it can burn EPA jackbooted thugs?
/johnny
I have a use for neither. Use them as kindling.
Where I live they usually call a non burn day on nice clear days and burn days on smoggy days. You can’t get an answer as how they pick the days and where are the sensors. Just the high particulate answer.
It happens. Citrus growers often used smudge pots in the winter to protect their crops. Average low in Upland is 42 in Dec and 43 in Jan.
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