The Valero refinery seen from Park Road with a cross of Industrial Way in Benicia, Calif., on Thursday, Sept. 26, 2024 (Ray Saint Germain/Bay City News)

The Benicia Fire Department said Monday that air quality levels in the city were normal despite complaints of an odor smelled throughout the city. 

The department determined that the odor was primarily related to usual operations at the Valero refinery, but current wind and weather conditions have made the odor more noticeable. 

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Alise is a general assignment reporter with a focus on covering government, elections, housing, crime, courts and entertainment in San Francisco and on the Peninsula. Alise is a Bay Area native from San Carlos. She studied history at University of California, Santa Cruz and first started journalism at Skyline College’s school newspaper in San Bruno. She has interned for Bay City News and for Eesti Rahvusringhääling, or Estonian Public Broadcasting. She has covered everything from the removal of former San Mateo County Sheriff Christina Corpus to the divisive battle over the Great Highway on San Francisco’s west side. Please send her any tips.