Flags will fly at Sacramento elementary schools to indicate air quality
Poor air quality is on the horizon with summer approaching, prompting three Sacramento schools this year to fly flags alerting students to smog levels.
The school-based Air Quality Flag program is designed to help protect children's lungs on days when dirty air poses a health threat.
Colored flags will be flown each day at three elementary schools: Fruit Ridge, 4625 44th St.; Ethel Phillips, 2930 21st Ave.; and Theodore Judah, 3919 McKinley Blvd.
The flags represent a different air quality category, ranging from green for good to purple for very unhealthy. Schools can choose not to have children play outside on bad air days.
The Breathe California of Sacramento-Emigrant Trails clean air organization, which as been working with schools for three years to employ the color-coded flags, said that reducing exposure to harmful pollutants is important for those who suffer from asthma. Pollutants also increase susceptibility to illnesses such as bronchitis and
The school-based Air Quality Flag program is designed to help protect children's lungs on days when dirty air poses a health threat.
Colored flags will be flown each day at three elementary schools: Fruit Ridge, 4625 44th St.; Ethel Phillips, 2930 21st Ave.; and Theodore Judah, 3919 McKinley Blvd.
The flags represent a different air quality category, ranging from green for good to purple for very unhealthy. Schools can choose not to have children play outside on bad air days.
The Breathe California of Sacramento-Emigrant Trails clean air organization, which as been working with schools for three years to employ the color-coded flags, said that reducing exposure to harmful pollutants is important for those who suffer from asthma. Pollutants also increase susceptibility to illnesses such as bronchitis and