When I caught up with Hertz-Picciotto in August, she logged into Zoom from her home in Berkeley, which was choked with smoke from the Lightning Complex Fires. Her team had already begun discussing study follow-ups; this year, mental health and wildfire response have been even more fraught ...
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
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,...
"My lungs are kind of sensitive to the smoke in the air," said Lane. "I've already required a respiratory treatment and they sent me off with an inhaler and so that's why I have to wear this mask." Scott Alonso with the Sonoma County Department of Public Health is urging people to...
Last week my location was blanketed by smoke from forest fires in northern Quebec, with the air quality index pegged as high as it goes (which is to say, eleven). The iPhone’s default weather app has an air quality map that I made use of—you could actually see the fire hotspots—...
Another described driving to multiple medical appointments for her son with co-occurring health conditions and staying at different homes while the wildfires still raged: I’m in a panic because I don’t know what to do, you can see the smoke, you can smell it, it felt like there was ...
Even inside Barclays Center at the morning shootaround, reporters could smell smoke in the arena. The NWSL postponed Orlando's match at Gotham in Harrison, New Jersey, from Wednesday night to Aug. 9. "The match could not be safely conducted based on the projected air quality index," the ...
A quarter of participants in a January 2020 survey in the worst-affected state of New South Wales (NSW) said wildfire smoke had harmed their health (The Australian Institute 2020). Emissions of fine particulate matter have been connected to negative health effects due to wildfire (Cascio 2018)...
Xcel Energy Inc.’s stock plummeted after law firm alleged a downed utility pole could leave the company responsible for damages. Bloomberg, Content provider March 1, 2024 2 Min Read DEVASTATION: Smoke billows over a road during the Smokehouse Creek fire in the Texas panhandle on February 27....
The few available indirect studies have shown varied results, with a majority reporting decreased precipitation after a fire event because aerosols from smoke reduce the size of cloud droplets, thus hindering rain formation (Rosenfeld 1999). Other studies have reported an increase (or decrease) in ...