Kids, who often are encouraged to go out and play, "are more susceptible to smoke for a number of reasons," said Laura Kate Bender, the lung association's National Assistant Vice President, healthy air. "Their lungs are still developing, they breathe in more air per unit of body weight....
Across the river, residents of Ohio and Pennsylvania were greatly impacted by the weather phenomenon. Both states were under a code red air quality alert on Wednesday, with conditions improving slightly to an orange alert on Thursday. While Wheeling did not experience any air quality ...
” he said. “Hopefully we get through the next couple days and it stays relatively quiet, but there’s a lot of air assets ready to go, so everybody’s on high alert.”
PHILADELPHIA-The Phillies Wednesday night game against the Detroit Tigers has been postponed due to smoke from Canadian wildfires that has compromised air quality and visibility along the east coast. The series finally will be played Thursday night at 6:05 p.m., which was conveniently the nex...
Jason Brolund, the fire chief in West Kelowna, B.C., says he's seen thick smoke turn day to night in his years as a firefighter, but the opposite happened when a fast-moving blaze tore through his community one night last August.
Many, who thought they could smell the smoke on Monday, were left with no doubt on Tuesday as the smell of smoke spread throughout the region. The NYS Dept. of Environmental Conservation issued an air quality alert again on Tuesday and this time recommended even people with healthy lungs sta...
The PACs associated with fine particles including petcoke, bitumen dust, and smoke from forest fires are local and regional concerns as they can be transported hundreds of kilometres before deposition. Canada's aluminum sector is another example where potential impacts of PAC emissions to localized ...
In the first place, the very form of the fire will act as a chimney, it will draw the smoke and the flame upwards and will cast the smoke away over the heads of the Scouts who sit round the circle, and that is in itself a very good thing. So many camp fires have been ruined ...
If Robert had done something to alert her of what was to come, or somehow managed to scare her, how would he get her to go off trail? She seemed like a smart girl, not easily mislead. 17.01.2019 23:39 Gary True, but she was traveling at an accelerated pace, and laying low at...
which could be short or far depending on how much light there is, he will immediately move towards your last visible location. Moving quickly from that spot can avoid a red alert, but it’s better not to be seen at all. If he does catch you, he will immediately open fire, and his ...