While healthy people need not worry, the alert means some smoke is mixing into the air here, leading to unhealthy air quality for sensitive groups like the elderly and people with respiratory issues. People in those groups are recommended to limit their time outside breath...
The Bay Area Air Quality Management District issued a smoke advisory through Saturday. The smoke is aloft, meaning it’s not at ground level. Air air district does not expect widespread unhealthy levels around here."You may smell smoke and if you do in those cases, if you aren’t near ...
ravaging an area twice the size ofPortugal. The resulting smoke and carbon emissions traveled to theUnited States, turning the skies overNew York Cityorange and causing citizens to don face masks due to the horrible air quality (see alsoair quality index); the smokeemanatingfrom Canada caused ...
In the afternoon Tuesday, the air quality plummeted. ThePurpleAir website, showed particulate matter levels from the toxic smoke was near the 200 range throughout the Bay Area with the worst air concentrated in San Francisco and Oakland. A 200 level PM reading calls for a health alert, "The...
air quality assessment manager for the South Coast air district. “Children, older adults, pregnant women, people that have preexisting heart or lung issues are really susceptible to the health impacts of smoke and really need to be extra careful. Smoke can impact everyone, but those sensitive ...
Wildfire smoke is an increasing environmental health threat to which children are particularly vulnerable, for both physiologic and behavioral reasons. To address the need for improved public health messaging this review summarizes current knowledge and knowledge gaps in the health effects of wildfire smok...
During the peak of the wildfires, police across the Hudson Valley received many reports on Tuesday about an odor of burning and smoke in the air and Air quality tracker, IQAir, reported New York City had the worst air quality in the world among major cities. ...
A friend texted me this week after going for a jog in the foothills near Boise, Idaho, writing: "My lungs are burning … explain what's happening!!!" A wildfire was burning to the east of town—one of dozens of fires that were sending smoke and ash through communities inhot, dry wes...
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SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA-Wildfire smoke from the Glass Fire in Napa County and expected smog has prompted the Bay Area Air Quality Management District to extend its Spare the Air Alert through Monday. Air district officials said that smoke from the Glass Fire that broke out Sunday morning will ...