This past month, the Bay Area has been afflicted by poor air quality from fires such as the Woodward fire, Quail fire and Park fire and Bear fire, which was responsible for the orange sky San Franciscans woke up to on Sept. 9. According to SF State environmental science professor and department chair Andrew Oliphant, climate change ties into the air quality and wildfires occurring all across the state of California. “Just the point that we know that the increase in fire frequency is predicted by the impacts of climate change. Just the point that we really need to get a handle on climate change, if we’re to you know, it has this downstream impact on area quality, which we’ve all noticed has deteriorated significantly in the past few years,” Oliphant said. With wildfire season a norm in California, the Xpress Air Quality Checking Resource Guide was created to help prepare and protect oneself from poor air quality and to avoid health risks resulting from Bay Area fires in the present a...