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Hudson Valley Air Quality Coalition asks Kingston to adopt explicit burn bans after regional wildfires
Summary
Members of the Hudson Valley Air Quality Coalition and residents urged the Common Council to adopt explicit, strict local burn bans (prohibiting backyard fire pits, contained campfires and small cooking fires) when the region is in elevated fire-risk conditions, saying statewide guidance left Kingston exposed.
Members of the Hudson Valley Air Quality Coalition and Kingston residents urged the Common Council on Tuesday to enact clear, local burn bans after multiple recent wildfires and a widely shared mid-November burn ban from the governor that still allowed certain backyard fires.
Lorraine Farina, coordinator of the Hudson Valley Air Quality Coalition, told the council the region experienced ‘‘very unhealthy’’ particulate levels on Nov. 10 and that local…
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