Air district offers portable filter units to low-income residents affected by smoke

In an effort to combat the effects of harmful smoke from wildfires throughout California, the Bay Area Air Quality Management District will provide portable air filtration units for low-income residents who suffer from asthma, district officials said.

The Home Air Filtration Program, which is part of the national nonprofit Public Health Institute’s Regional Asthma Management and Prevention (RAMP) program, will provide the units to about 2,000 people throughout the Bay Area who have been diagnosed with poor-controlled asthma and are enrolled in the state’s Asthma Mitigation Project.