Air Quality Alert for Friday -- Santa Clarita Valley

 

For Immediate Release:                                                       

June 27, 2008                                     

 

 

AIR QUALITY ALERT: 

 

Air quality is unhealthy for sensitive individuals in the Santa Clarita Valley

 

 

LOS ANGELES – According to the South Coast Air Quality Management District, today’s air quality in the Santa Clarita Valley continues to be unhealthy for sensitive individuals. 

 

Los Angeles County Health Officer and Public Health Director, Jonathan E. Fielding, MD, MPH, advises people living or working in the Santa Clarita Valley who have heart disease, asthma or other chronic respiratory diseases to minimize outside physical activities and should remain indoors as much as possible. Schools that are in session today that have children with sensitive conditions, including heart disease, asthma, other chronic respiratory diseases, should not participate in PE and after school sports, and should stay indoors as much as possible.

 

The Department of Public Health is committed to protecting and improving the health of the nearly 10 million residents of Los Angeles County. Through a variety of programs, community partnerships and services, Public Health oversees environmental health, disease control, and community and family health. Public Health comprises more than 4,000 employees and has an annual budget exceeding $750 million. To learn more about Public Health and the work we do, please visit www.publichealth.lacounty.gov .

 

 

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