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On Sunday, fire officials detected high levels of fine particulate matter, known as PM10, around the refinery and issued a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11735065/problems-at-valeros-benicia-refinery-increase-prompt-health-advisory\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">health advisory\u003c/a> urging people with respiratory issues to stay indoors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What we were seeing was dark gray, almost black smoke coming from the flue gas scrubber unit,\" Benicia Fire Chief Josh Chadwick said Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PM10 is particulate matter 10 micrometers or less in diameter — larger than PM2.5 many became familiar with during last November's Camp Fire, when smoke from the huge Butte County blaze prompted health advisories throughout much of Northern California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like PM2.5, the larger particulate matter is regulated by the Environmental Protection Agency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>EPA spokeswoman Soledad Calvino said the agency would not comment on ongoing or potential investigations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agency has said that once inhaled, petroleum coke dust can affect the heart and lungs and cause serious health effects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The additional concern is that this is more toxic than the standard stuff you'd find in the atmosphere,\" said Anthony Wexler, director of the Air Quality Research Center at UC Davis. \"It's probably similar in toxicity to diesel exhaust, which is a known carcinogen because it's sooty in nature.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Sunday morning the wind in the Benicia area was blowing east to west at about 6 to 12 mph, according to meteorologist Jan Null.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That meant the coke dust was being blown toward residential neighborhoods, said Chadwick.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That was one of the big concerns I had,\" Chadwick said. \"We had a wind shift ... that really turned it back toward the city.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Several Residents Complain of Breathing Problems\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chadwick said the Benicia Fire Department received two 911 calls for respiratory complaints. 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That meant the facility's smokestacks began belching a sooty plume of petroleum coke dust — minute carbon particles that are a byproduct of the oil refining process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The initial problem prompted the Bay Area Air Quality Management District to issue eight \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11733145/air-district-hits-valero-with-violations-over-benicia-refinery-releases\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">notices of violation\u003c/a> against Valero.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The air district and Solano County health officials said during the following days that the flue gas scrubber had been fixed and the coke dust releases were intermittent and gradually coming to an end.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the black smoke returned on Saturday. On Sunday, fire officials detected high levels of fine particulate matter, known as PM10, around the refinery and issued a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11735065/problems-at-valeros-benicia-refinery-increase-prompt-health-advisory\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">health advisory\u003c/a> urging people with respiratory issues to stay indoors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What we were seeing was dark gray, almost black smoke coming from the flue gas scrubber unit,\" Benicia Fire Chief Josh Chadwick said Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PM10 is particulate matter 10 micrometers or less in diameter — larger than PM2.5 many became familiar with during last November's Camp Fire, when smoke from the huge Butte County blaze prompted health advisories throughout much of Northern California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like PM2.5, the larger particulate matter is regulated by the Environmental Protection Agency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>EPA spokeswoman Soledad Calvino said the agency would not comment on ongoing or potential investigations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agency has said that once inhaled, petroleum coke dust can affect the heart and lungs and cause serious health effects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The additional concern is that this is more toxic than the standard stuff you'd find in the atmosphere,\" said Anthony Wexler, director of the Air Quality Research Center at UC Davis. \"It's probably similar in toxicity to diesel exhaust, which is a known carcinogen because it's sooty in nature.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Sunday morning the wind in the Benicia area was blowing east to west at about 6 to 12 mph, according to meteorologist Jan Null.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That meant the coke dust was being blown toward residential neighborhoods, said Chadwick.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That was one of the big concerns I had,\" Chadwick said. \"We had a wind shift ... that really turned it back toward the city.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Several Residents Complain of Breathing Problems\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chadwick said the Benicia Fire Department received two 911 calls for respiratory complaints. 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