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San Francisco disaster council weighs flexible air-quality rules, regional messaging and cleaner-air centers
Summary
Public-health and emergency officials updated the Disaster Council on an updated air-quality response plan stressing tradeoffs in protective guidance, a regional messaging toolkit, and a city facilities inventory to identify potential cooling/clean-air centers before the next smoke or heat events.
San Francisco officials on the Disaster Council outlined steps to sharpen the city’s response to future smoke and heat events, stressing that technical tradeoffs mean public guidance must be precise and regionally coordinated.
Dr. Thomas Aragon, presenting on Executive Directive 18-4, said the city treats air quality through three domains — the natural environment, the built environment and people — and emphasized that “there are really gap areas, and there’s some areas where there’s no right answer. There’s only tradeoffs.” He told the council that officials are revising the city’s AQI matrix to be more flexible and…
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