Your Questions About Wildfire Smoke and Health, Answered
As wildfires ravage Los Angeles, experts answer key questions about how wildfire smoke affects health and how to protect yourself.
How To Protect Yourself Against Wildfire Smoke
The Los Angeles wildfires have been generating large amounts of smoke that can include toxic fumes and fine particulate matter. Here are ways to protect yourself.
How Wildfire Smoke Affects Your Health—and How You Can Protect Yourself
The composition of a wildfire can also have an impact on human health. With the California fires engulfing homes and businesses, smoke in the region is likely carrying chemicals released from synthetic building materials that are more toxic than those emitted from burning vegetation.
Wildfire smoke: What are the health risks?
Multiple massive wildfires are raging in Los Angeles, blanketing the surrounding regions under a pungent haze caused by smoke carrying noxious gases and particulate matter that pose serious health risks.
Study finds lack of air conditioning increases health risks from wildfire smoke
As Los Angeles County battles the most destructive wildfires in its history, a new study suggest that US policies should prioritize equity and education regarding the measures people can take to protect themselves from the harmful pollutants in wildfire smoke.
California Wildfires: How Smoke Harms Your Body
As wildfires blaze across California, here is how inhaling smoke could affect your health, from itchy eyes to dementia risk.
Here’s How Wildfire Smoke Can Impact Your Health
Wildfire smoke is becoming an increasingly common health hazard as wildfires grow more frequent and intense. Understanding the health impacts of wildfire smoke and taking precautions can help protect you and your loved ones.
What wildfire smoke means for your heath
The fires burning across Los Angeles County have sent billowing plumes of black smoke into the air, posing a major health threat even as quick-moving flames have blowtorched homes, schools and other buildings.
Graphics show how drifting smoke from far-away wildfires can hurt your health
That's because even after wildfires are over, the smoke can linger in the atmosphere for days or weeks. The smoke also can travel hundreds of miles, depending on weather conditions. Learn more: How to keep wildfire smoke out of your home.
Inhaling Wildfire Smoke Can Cause Long-Term Health Risks: How To Limit Your Exposure
Fact checked by Nick Blackmer Wildfire smoke can pose a serious health risk, especially with prolonged exposure. While wildfires can cause immediate destruction to homes and towns, a few weeks of smoke exposure should not have long-term effects for most healthy people,
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How to Monitor Air Quality and Protect Yourself From Wildfire Smoke
Fortunately, the US Environmental Protection Agency has a resource called the Air Quality Index to help monitor air quality.
California wildfires: How smoke, poor air quality can impact health of people hundreds of miles from Los Angeles
Smoke from wildfires — like the ones in Los Angeles — can have health consequences. Here's what experts expect.
Flames, smoke and smoldering homes as firefighters battle wildfires in Southern California
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This Type of Air Purifier Can Protect You From the LA Wildfire Smoke
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Wildfire smoke inside homes can create health risks that linger for months − tips for cleaning and staying safe
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Wildfire smoke from raging California blazes is putting millions at risk
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Pacific Palisades fire live map: Real-time tools let you track wildfires and smoke in Los Angeles
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