{"id":864,"date":"2022-10-20T10:23:56","date_gmt":"2022-10-20T17:23:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/macdonaldj\/?p=864"},"modified":"2022-10-20T10:23:56","modified_gmt":"2022-10-20T17:23:56","slug":"air-quality-advisory-from-burnaby-schools-district","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/macdonaldj\/2022\/10\/20\/air-quality-advisory-from-burnaby-schools-district\/","title":{"rendered":"Air Quality Advisory from Burnaby Schools District"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-865 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/macdonaldj\/files\/2022\/10\/Air-Quality-Advisory_Web-Image_22.10-1024x421-1-300x123.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"123\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/macdonaldj\/files\/2022\/10\/Air-Quality-Advisory_Web-Image_22.10-1024x421-1-300x123.png 300w, https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/macdonaldj\/files\/2022\/10\/Air-Quality-Advisory_Web-Image_22.10-1024x421-1-768x316.png 768w, https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/macdonaldj\/files\/2022\/10\/Air-Quality-Advisory_Web-Image_22.10-1024x421-1-620x255.png 620w, https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/macdonaldj\/files\/2022\/10\/Air-Quality-Advisory_Web-Image_22.10-1024x421-1.png 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Burnaby is included in the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/weather.gc.ca\/warnings\/report_e.html?bc42\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">special air quality statement<\/a>\u00a0issued by Environment Canada, due to concentrations of fine particulate matter caused by smoke from wildfires in BC and Washington State.<\/p>\n<p>The Burnaby School District is monitoring the situation and is working to limit smoke exposure for students and staff by:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Closing exterior doors and windows and utilizing filtered ventilation systems;<\/li>\n<li>Postponing or reducing outdoor activities, particularly strenuous physical activities;<\/li>\n<li>Limiting extra-curricular outdoor athletic events;<\/li>\n<li>Allowing students who are sensitive to the smoke to remain indoors during lunch and breaks;<\/li>\n<li>Monitoring closely students with asthma or other breathing conditions.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>More information can be found on the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www2.gov.bc.ca\/gov\/content\/environment\/air-land-water\/air\/air-quality\/air-advisories\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">provincial air quality advisory page.<\/a>\u00a0Additionally, the BC Centre for Disease Control has information about\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bccdc.ca\/health-info\/prevention-public-health\/wildfire-smoke\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">wildfire smoke<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Posted October 19, 2022 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>(at\u00a0<strong>https:\/\/burnabyschools.ca\/air-quality-advisory\/https:\/\/burnabyschools.ca\/air-quality-advisory\/)\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Burnaby is included in the\u00a0special air quality statement\u00a0issued by Environment Canada, due to concentrations of fine particulate matter caused by smoke from wildfires in BC and Washington State. The Burnaby [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10432,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/macdonaldj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/864"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/macdonaldj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/macdonaldj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/macdonaldj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10432"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/macdonaldj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=864"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/macdonaldj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/864\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":866,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/macdonaldj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/864\/revisions\/866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/macdonaldj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/macdonaldj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/macdonaldj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}