Smoke from the Northern California fires has canceled and postponed two weekend events in Benicia.
The Benicia Historical Museum’s “I Dig Benicia” event and the Benicia Fire Department’s open house, both originally slated for Saturday, will no longer be taking place on their scheduled dates. Both the Benicia Museum and Fire Department have cited poor air quality as to why the events were canceled and postponed. The museum plans to reschedule “I Dig Benicia”– in which children of all ages take part in a variety of indoor and outdoor activities to explore Benicia’s archaeological history– to the spring. The Fire Department has not announced when the open house will be held again.
“This was a highly anticipated event, and we apologize to for the disappointment,” The Benicia Historical Museum said in an official statement.”The safety of the children is our most important concern. Thank you for your understanding.”
The air quality has also led to the cancellation of Benicia Unified School District schools for the week and all its activities, including Benicia High School’s Homecoming events.
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Big wildfires “thrive in dry air, low humidity, and high winds; climate change is going to make those conditions more frequent over the next century.”
— James West, Mother Jones Magazine
Could the Napa/Santa Rosa fires happen here in our “little city?”
The author of the article below offers strong evidence based on California’s past fire history that should make our appointed and elected leaders sit-up and pay close attention.
A clip from the post below for the community to seriously consider…
” The scene, a thousand homes incinerated to their foundations, resembles the apocalypse Kim Jong-un keeps promising to bring to America. Especially shocking to Californians, these were not homes in the combustible foothills or mountains where fire danger traditionally lurks, but on the plain, next to a freeway, schools, fast-food outlets – the kind of landscape where most of us live. Altogether, in one terrible night, Santa Rosa (population 165,000) lost more than 2800 homes and businesses to what is officially known as the Tubbs Fire. But it’s premature to cite losses or add up body counts since, as I write, twenty fires still writhe across the Wine Country, and an army of exhausted firefighters fearfully awaits the return of the Diablo winds.”
https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/10/18/el-diablo-in-wine-country/