Orange Alert Days

Air pollution can affect your health and the environment.  There are actions every one of us can take to reduce air pollution and keep the air cleaner, and precautionary measures you can take to protect your health.

Health Message
Active children and adults, and people with respiratory disease, such as asthma, should limit prolonged outdoor exertion.

How You Can Keep the Air Cleaner

On Action Days

• Conserve electricity and set your air conditioner at a higher temperature.
• Choose a cleaner commute—share a ride to work or take a KAT bus or other public transportation. Bicycle or walk to work or for errands.
• Wait until another day to use gasoline-powered lawn and garden equipment.
• Refuel cars and trucks after dusk.
• Combine errands and reduce motor vehicle trips.
• If you’re going to stop your car for more than a couple of minutes, turn it off. It saves gas and reduces pollution!
• Wait until another day to use household, workshop, and garden chemicals.

Everyday

• Conserve energy—at home, at work, everywhere.
• Follow gasoline refueling instructions for efficient vapor recovery. Be careful not to spill fuel and always tighten your gas cap securely.
• Keep car, boat, and other engines tuned up according to manufacturers' specification.
• Be sure your tires are properly inflated
• Carpool, use public transportation (like KAT), bike, or walk whenever possible.
• Use environmentally safe paints and cleaning products whenever possible.
• Some products that you use at your home or office are made with smog-forming chemicals that can evaporate into the air when you use them. Follow manufacturers' recommendations for use and properly seal cleaners, paints, and other chemicals to prevent evaporation into the air.

 

Red Alert Days

A red alert means that everyone may begin to experience health effects; members of sensitive groups may experience more serious health effects. Sensitive groups include children and adults who are active outdoors, and people with respiratory disease, such as asthma.

Health Message
Everyone, especially children and people with respiratory disease such as asthma, should avoid prolonged outdoor exertion.

How You Can Keep the Air Cleaner

On Action Days

• Conserve electricity and set your air conditioner at a higher temperature.
• Choose a cleaner commute—share a ride to work or take a KAT bus or other public transportation. Bicycle or walk to work or for errands.
• Wait until another day to use gasoline-powered lawn and garden equipment.
• Refuel cars and trucks after dusk.
• Combine errands and reduce motor vehicle trips.
• If you’re going to stop your car for more than a couple of minutes, turn it off. It saves gas and reduces pollution!
• Wait until another day to use household, workshop, and garden chemicals.

Everyday

• Conserve energy—at home, at work, everywhere.
• Follow gasoline refueling instructions for efficient vapor recovery. Be careful not to spill fuel and always tighten your gas cap securely.
• Keep car, boat, and other engines tuned up according to manufacturers' specification.
• Be sure your tires are properly inflated
• Carpool, use public transportation (like KAT), bike, or walk whenever possible.
• Use environmentally safe paints and cleaning products whenever possible.
• Some products that you use at your home or office are made with smog-forming chemicals that can evaporate into the air when you use them. Follow manufacturers' recommendations for use and properly seal cleaners, paints, and other chemicals to prevent evaporation into the air.