Smoke Over the Holiday: What the Weekend Left Behind
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The Fourth of July festivities along San Diego's waterfront and beaches gave way this week to a set of compounding regional challenges: a wildfire burning on Marine Corps land, nearly 150 pets still unclaimed in county shelters, a major trade agreement in flux, and a Padres team mired in one of its worst stretches of the season.
Air quality across the county is currently rated poor — classified as unhealthy for sensitive groups — a condition linked in part to smoke drifting from an active fire on Camp Pendleton. Residents in Oceanside and inland North County communities are advised to limit outdoor exertion, particularly those with respiratory conditions.
Local journalists at KPBS, the San Diego Union-Tribune, Times of San Diego, NBC 7, and Fox 5 are driving the original reporting behind each of these developing stories.