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| • | Advocates Urge Smoke-free Public Housing
AUGUSTA — The State Fire Marshal’s Office and the Smoke-Free Housing Coalition today urged the state’s housing authorities to make their housing units smoke-free by Jan. 1, 2009. |
| • | Bill Opens Door to Smoke-free Apartments
SACRAMENTO - California apartment complexes could be declared smoke-free zones under legislation that's scheduled to be considered this week by a state Senate committee.
Sen. Alex Padilla says his bill would ensure that owners of rental housing have the option to ban smoking. |
| • | Housing Authority to Implement Limited Smoking Ban
Danville City Commission isn't the only governing body in town in the midst of implementing a no-smoking policy. The Housing Authority of Danville is about to impose its own policy but on a much smaller scale. |
| • | Woman Clings to Life in Chinatown Fire Horror
A Chinatown woman was battling for life after firefighters pulled her out of her burning high-rise apartment, officials said.
The 59-year-old woman was asleep in her 10th-floor apartment in Knickerbocker Village on Monroe St. when a fire ignited at 3:45 a.m. Wednesday, officials said. |
