With the increased frequency and severity of wildfires, how prepared are you to manage the effects of wildfire smoke on your building’s indoor quality (IAQ)? Here are five measures you can take to help protect the people inside until the outdoor air returns to normal. 1. Keep windows and...
The first week of January isn't usually wildfire season. But as 2024 began, more than 100 "zombie fires" were actively burning in British Columbia — holdovers from last summer that typically go dormant over winter. "That is mind boggling to ...
Finally, while lower- and moderate-intensity fires can reduce the smoke-related health impacts of large, high-intensity wildfires75, moving toward progressive suppression would likely increase the frequency of low-level smoke emissions, much like the increased use of prescribed fire75,76. As such,...
Wildfires in 2020 ravaged California to set the annual record of area burned to date. Clusters of wildfires in Northern California surrounded the Bay Area covering the skies with smoke and raising the air pollutant concentrations to hazardous levels. Thi
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Wildfires tore across the Los Angeles area with devastating force Wednesday after setting off a desperate escape from burning homes through flames, ferocious winds and towering clouds of smoke. The flames from a fire that broke out Tuesday evening near a nature preserve in ...
Fierce wildfires are raging in the Los Angeles area, fueled by powerful Santa Ana winds, sending residents fleeing from burning homes through flames, ferocious winds and towering clouds of smoke.
Hundreds of homes have been destroyed by fires raging along a 190-mile (306 kilometers) front, and much of the region is blanketed by thick, choking smoke. Dry, windy conditions are expected to worsen through Wednesday (Oct. 23), making the task of battling the infernos even more demandi...
9, the "Irresistible" singer shared an image of smoke rising from beyond her backyard. She wrote in the caption, "We stayed as long as we could." (Photo by Frazer Harrison/Getty Images) Cary Elwes The Princess Bride actor shared his and his wife Lisa Marie Kurbikoff’s...
Smoke from the fires has caused “unhealthy air quality” across the county, according to a Saturday news release. The smoke is expected to have the strongest effect in northwest coastal Los Angeles County, including the Pacific Palisades, Altadena, Pasadena and areas near the fires. Anish Ma...
“Everybody in Ventura County in the fall – if you live anywhere near the brush – should be ready,” Gardner said. “If you’re in the fire impact area, if you’re smelling smoke, you should be prepared to go. And when you get that evacuation order, you need to leave, get your...