The Bay Area Air Quality Management District has issued Spare the Air alerts for this Wednesday and Thanksgiving Day, marking the region’s first winter bans on wood burning this season.
The alerts prohibit the use of all wood-burning devices, including fireplaces, wood stoves, pellet stoves, manufactured fire logs, and fire pits — both indoors and outdoors — as pollution levels are expected to rise.
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