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Bay Area Stores Sell Out of Air Purifiers As Bad Air Quality Persists

The ongoing poor air quality has people in the Bay Area looking for relief, including repairing or installing in-home air filtration units – if they can be found.

The smoke in the air Saturday was so thick it was visible on
the 26th consecutive day a Spare the Air alert was issued in the Bay
Area.

People in some place are struggling to keep the smoke out of
their homes.

Some of the Bay Area’s busiest businesses this week have
been air conditioning and ventilation repair companies.

That includes Sameh Tamimi and his team at Heating and Air HVAC Services in San Francisco. He said they’ve been getting more than 130 calls every day to replace air conditioning filters or install air scrubbers – an added filtration system.

Because of the pandemic, the recent heat wave and now the
smoke, people are rushing to make their homes as safe and comfortable as
possible.

“Basically right now, everybody is stuck in their home and
it’s affecting, I would say, their mental health, their physical health,” Tamimi
said. “As for kids, they can’t go to parks right now.”

“It’s been crazy,” said Jenna Miller of Center Hardware and
Supply Co. “We’ve been busy with the fires and we’ve been busy with COVID.
Right now, as you can see, we have some fans left. Air purifiers, we’re getting
those back in stock this week.”

At Center Hardware in San Francisco’s Dogpatch neighborhood
there’s been a rush on air purifiers. It continues to be tough to find them
anywhere in the Bay Area.

The other two most popular items at the local Ace Hardware store are air filters for home fans and N95 masks.


Source: NBC Bay Area

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