Winter Spare the Air
Posted By Admin on December 16, 2008
Last week during our lunch break, I overheard my coworkers talking about “burn”. Somebody was asking somebody ” did you burn? ” and someone replied, ” I was burning! ” . I was curious as to what is the “burning” all about but as I was having my lunch, I didn’t want to care much about other things.
While eating, I was thinking “burn”??? “Burning” as in with high fever, on fire, or excited?? I wonder what they were talking about but oh, well, can’t talk when your mouth is full no?
Fast forward two days later, I found out that the whole hullabaloo about the “burn” word was there is now a WINTER SPARE THE AIR DAY in the Bay Area which is…
From November to February, particulate matter — especially particulate matter 2.5 microns or smaller in size (PM2.5) — can become a problem in the Bay Area. To protect public health, the Air District will issue a Winter Spare the Air Alert when PM2.5 concentrations are expected to be unhealthy. When a Winter Spare the Air Alert is in effect, burning wood, firelogs, or pellets in your fireplace or woodstove is illegal. Wood burning produces about one-third of the particulate pollution on a typical winter night.
Hmm, I never knew that burning anything in the fireplace or wood stove can ever be illegal. But then this is America, anything is possible I guess. So now people have to watch out if they can burn or not burn during a certain day or in other words, “check before you burn”.
I placed a widget on my sidebar so you can see if you can burn today. 
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I thought that burn was CD burning, hehehe…so it was all about that literal word “burn”…