All these chemicals we don’t think of occurring in a wildland fire are now part of the smoke,” said Mary Johnson, principal research assistant at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
Klamath Tribes Wildland Fire Department crews are helping Los Angeles County battle the Eaton and Palisades fires.
As the deadly California fires persisted into a second week, a West Virginia University air quality expert said people within ...
The National Weather Service warned Tuesday that the combination of high winds and severely dry conditions have created a ...
As if they aren’t already facing enough, firefighters in California also could encounter fire tornadoes — a rare but ...
The latest NIST study provides more information about exposure risk for firefighters from their firefighting protective gear.
The federal wildland fire system also incentivizes overworking and risky behaviors ... wildland firefighters have been injured or had an illness related to their work. Smoke inhalation, living in ...
I remember retching and even vomiting on many fires, enveloped in smoke ... is that wildland firefighters from federal and state agencies and county, municipal and volunteer fire departments ...
A 2023 study of smoke from fires in the wildland-urban interface—areas where urban neighborhoods ... a study of residents who had been exposed to six weeks of smoke during the 2017 Rice Ridge Fire ...
MILLIONS OF PEOPLE across the Los Angeles area are being exposed to wildfire smoke as fires burn through homes and vehicles.