(Air Quality Alert)…It was for the Calexico area.

The Air Pollution Control District issued the Alert at 1:00 Thursday morning. Very high levels of PM 2.5 were recorded at the Ethel Street monitoring station. Air Quality was listed as Unhealthy for Sensitive Groups. Those groups include people with respiratory or heart disease, the elderly and children. By the time the sun came up, the levels of finite particulate matter had lowered, and air quality was listed as moderate. Air quality levels have not been available for the rest of the county.