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March 29, 2024

Gavilan closes campus due to unhealthy air caused by fire

Gavilan College has canceled classes and closed the campus due to unhealthy air quality from the fire in Butte County.
The college sent out a GavAlert this morning on the closure, noting it was due to bad air quality. That air quality in the region has been hampered in recent days by the fire in Paradise.
Air quality at a monitoring station on 9th Street in Gilroy measured at an Air Quality Index rating of 172 as of 10 a.m. That’s considered the “unhealthy” range for air quality.
The fire in Butte County has been burning since Nov. 8. It was at 140,000 acres burned and 40 percent containment as of 9:07 a.m. this morning, according to Calfire.
A spokeswoman for the college could not be reached immediately.
In Hollister, the AQI index measured air quality as “moderate” at 82. The higher the rating, the more pollutants are in the air that can cause health issues.

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