issued the wood-burning bans via Spare the Air alerts on days earlier this week, but said the air quality will be better Friday during the Christmas holiday. Nevertheless, the burning of wood in ...

Air quality regulators banned indoor and outdoor wood burning in much of Southern California Monday through Friday due to a forecast of high air pollution in the area. The residential wood-burning ...

on Christmas Day. Increased wood burning has been identified as the primary cause, according to Ted Lendis, planning manager for the Division of Air Quality within DES. "We’re asking people to ...

People gathering around a fireplace for Christmas on Monday in the Bay Area were able to do so -- wood burning was discouraged but not banned by the air district for the day. First-time violators ...