(Colorado Department of Public Health & Environment / FOX Weather) By late Friday morning,smoke rolled into Colorado, smothering Denver in a thick haze and ranking the Mile High City as the third worst air quality of all major cities in the world. Thick smoke covered western Montana and along...
Forecast-based interventions can reduce the health and economic burden of wildfires. Environ Sci Technol. 2014;48:10571–9. CAS PubMed Google Scholar Zhang S, Li L, Gao W, Wang Y, Yao X. Interventions to reduce individual exposure of elderly individuals and children to haze: a review. ...
This is the first study to develop an integrated model for predicting smoke dispersion from forest fires in Korea. Keywords: forest fire; smoke dispersion; Gaussian plume model; forecast system 1. Introduction Smoke from forest fires presents a rising problem as it contains large amounts of trace...
Wildfires are becoming more frequent and destructive in a changing climate. Fine particulate matter, PM2.5, in wildfire smoke adversely impacts human health. Recent toxicological studies suggest that wildfire particulate matter may be more toxic than equ
The 20-year-old man, who was 17 when the killing occurred, also pleaded guilty in Inglewood juvenile court to home invasion robbery. He was sentenced to four years and two months in a juvenile facility. The judge has barred the public use of his name because he was a minor at the time...
[7,78]. A wildfire smoke forecast that triggers interventions to reduce personal exposure at lower PM2.5threshold could be beneficial to reduce respiratory and cardiovascular health burdens [119]. In addition, comprehensive public health measures, such as Rule 4901, to reduce wood smoke exposure ...
This study will look into the decisions made by forecasters at the National Weather Service (NWS) Office in Grand Junction, Colorado. What tools were used to deliver the weather message? Was there a breakdown in communication? Were the critical impacts relayed between the requesting agencies and...
The Cameron Peak Fire grew to 16,461 acres. With high winds and potential lightning in the forecast, now more than 500 personnel were fighting the fire. Aug. 21, 2020: 16,602 acres Poudre Fire Authority Aug. 21, 2020: 16,602 acres ...
1–51. WRF-Chem model setup for the sensitivity simulations is as shown in Table 2, and HRRR-Smoke is not included in the sensitivity analysis as it was being run in only as a real-time forecast product for the FIREX-AQ period.
The increase in asthma symptoms with wildfire smoke exposures is likely due to fine or ultrafine particles; wildfire PM10is less consistently related to asthma symptoms. In fact, a pair of recent studies assessed asthma ER visits in Colorado for overlapping time frames; the study that used wildfir...