air quality alert for Thursday

 

For Immediate Release:                                                       

June 19, 2008

 

AIR QUALITY ALERT: Valley Communities Affected by Poor Air

 

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

and East San Gabriel Valley

 

Air quality is unhealthy for sensitive individuals in the West and East San Fernando Valley, the West San Gabriel Valley and the Pomona/Walnut Valley

 

LOS ANGELES – According to the South Coast Air Quality Management District, today’s air quality in the Santa Clarita Valley and the East San Gabriel Valley will be unhealthy for all individuals. In the West and East San Fernando Valley, the West San Gabriel Valley, and the Pomona/Walnut Valley, the air quality will be unhealthy for sensitive individuals.

 

Los Angeles County Health Officer and Public Health Director, Jonathan E. Fielding, MD, MPH, advises people in the Santa Clarita Valley and the East San Gabriel Valley to cancel outdoor physical activities, such as running, soccer, tennis, football, or outdoor swimming. Schools that are in session today in the East San Gabriel Valley and Santa Clarita Valley should cancel outside physical activities, including PE and after school sports.

 

In the West and East San Fernando Valley, the West San Gabriel Valley and the Pomona/Walnut Valley, sensitive individuals who have heart disease, asthma or other chronic respiratory diseases should minimize outside physical activities and should remain indoors as much as possible. Schools that are in session today in these areas 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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