{"id":473604,"date":"2026-09-24T00:06:16","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T00:06:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/473604\/"},"modified":"2026-09-24T00:06:16","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T00:06:16","slug":"controlled-burn-on-angel-island-leads-to-smoky-san-francisco-skies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/473604\/","title":{"rendered":"Controlled burn on Angel Island leads to smoky San Francisco skies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you\u2019re in San Francisco today, you might smell smoke. That\u2019s because officials with California State parks and the Marin County Fire Department are doing a prescribed burn on Angel Island. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marincounty.gov\/news-releases\/prescribed-burn-angel-island-state-park-continue-early-september-23\" class=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The burn began Wednesday morning<\/a>, and is expected to go til Thursday. Officials say they do controlled burns on a rotational basis to mitigate fire risk, and that they coordinate with the Bay Area Air District to minimize smoke impact.<\/p>\n<p>But <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/sanfrancisco\/comments\/1woekt5\/is_there_a_fire_whole_city_is_smoky_and_smells\/\" class=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">users on Reddit started posting<\/a> about the smoke by noon today.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/map.purpleair.com\/air-quality-standards-us-epa-aqi\/united-states\/california\/san-francisco?opt=%2F1%2Flp%2Fa10%2Fp604800%2FcC0#13.8\/37.77535\/-122.4234\" class=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">some online air quality monitoring sites<\/a>, the air quality is dangerous in some central and eastern parts of the city right now, including Japantown, Western Addition, and Jackson square.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s recommended to stay indoors, close your windows, and if you have one, run an air purifier. The smoke could linger for up to three days.<\/p>\n<p>Update &#8211; September 23, 4 p.m.: The burn was stopped at 2:15 p.m. on Wednesday. No more burning is planned for the remainder of this week. Officials say they will finish the burn when there are favorable weather conditions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If you\u2019re in San Francisco today, you might smell smoke. That\u2019s because officials with California State parks and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":473605,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[101,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":["post-473604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=473604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473604\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/473605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=473604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=473604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=473604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}