Posted on 12/24/2009 1:06:11 PM PST by SmithL
SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) -- You can celebrate Christmas but you won't be able to burn the Yule Log on Friday in the Bay Area. That's because the Bay Area Air Quality Management District is prohibiting the burning of wood on Christmas Day.
Friday will be the season's third winter Spare the Air day. Officials are blaming what they call "stagnant weather conditions.
“Air quality is unfortunately forecast to be unhealthy on Christmas Day, and the Air District is taking steps to protect public health by issuing a Winter Spare the Alert,” said Jack Broadbent, executive officer of the Air District in a written statement. “Please remember this holiday season that children, the elderly and those with heart and lung problems are most susceptible to the harmful effects of wood smoke.”
During an alert day, it's illegal to use fireplaces, woodstoves and inserts, pellet stoves, outdoor fire pits, or any other wood-burning devices. The only exception is if burning wood is the only way you have to heat your home.
Stay tuned to KRON 4 and KRON4.com for the latest on air quality conditions over the holiday weekend.
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Ho, Ho, Ho!
A Yule log is required by my Paganism SF is trampling my religious freedom.
That makes about as much sense as the new CA Cell phone law, and about as many people will adhere to it..........
The STAGNANT AIR is because Pelosi, Boxer and Swinestein are in town. And Obowzo dumped a crapload of carbon from AF One as he flew over the area.
Bastards. They banned wood burning on Thanksgiving Day. Now on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day.
Good Lord I HATE government and all the parasites it employs at every level throughout our nation.
Just burn, em, baby! Burn, baby, burn!!
Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!!
If you lit Pelosi up; her botox treatments would be toxic.
You slaves in the Bay Area need to wake up.
Can we burn a witch?
How about my plasitc-fiberglass Yule log?
Burn the tires off of an SUV and watch their liberal heads explode.
The prohibition on burning wood is to protect the heads of leftist politicians during unpopular times.
Oops, my gas furnace is on the blitz. Guess I’ll have to burn this big ol’ log. It’s the only heat I have today.
Merry Christmas everyone!!
As a Constitutionalist, I'm not against any local governments making absurd laws such as this as long it's local governments doing it. At the local government's level, the citizenry can change the law at any election cycle they want, and those who can't will just move along with their tax dollars. I'm only against it when the federal government does (such as this new health care debacle).
Earmark:
Natural gas is hereby banned.
What about my constitutional right to be HAPPY! Yule logs make me happy!
Screw ‘em.
Don’t worry SanFransicko,
I’m sure puffing on a Yule log is still legal.
Yes you can, just find a couple of old car tires and some gas and have at it. But look like a innocence by stander when the cops show up. And have a good description of the brown Amish guy that started it. LOL
The bureaucrats won’t even let us enjoy the smell of woodsmoke on our own property.
The Vogons are everywhere!
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