Climate
change continues to challenge the ecosystem, and cause more serious air pollution.
Firefighters on Sunday were gaining the upper hand on a fire that erupted near
the Carquinez Bridge, which connects Contra Costa County to Vallejo in Northern
California, and quickly spread into Crockett south of the Carquinez Strait,
which connects California’s two largest rivers to San Francisco Bay. The
Glencove fire, which started close to the Interstate 80 toll plaza north of the
Carquinez Strait, was 75% contained by about 2 p.m., according to a Solano
County sheriff’s official. The Carquinez Bridge, which had been closed, was
reopened around 2:30 p.m. At one point the fire north of the bridge threatened
the Vallejo neighborhood of Glencove to the east and the California Maritime
Academy to the west. Vehicles in a parking lot burned and two firefighters
suffered minor injuries because of heat exposure. Earlier, homeowners were seen
with garden hoses trying to get
By Rong-Gong Lin II,
Oct. 27, 2019
Hello Chika,
ReplyDeleteClimate change and the fires are causing devastation to our ecosystem and the atmospheric air, making it hard to breathe and only exacerbating the respiratory symptoms. The fires are around you affecting your livability and health. Although there are no fires in close proximity and are a few hundred miles away where I live, the pollution in Fresno is terrible too, the skies are gray in color and sometimes you can see the PM on cars, roofs and trees. I really think this is Armageddon!