The reversal of a decades-old U.S. Forest Service policy means that federal wildland firefighters can now mask up if they want to — something Washington’s state wildland firefighters have been able to ...
It's tough to accessorize for an airpocalypse. When wildfires turn blue skies into browned-out hellscapes, there's only one accessory that fits for safety and style — a mask. With California facing a ...
The U.S. government will provide wildfire fighters with masks to protect against smoke — reversing a decades-long ban that exposed workers to toxins known to cause cancer and other serious diseases.
New research quantifies the health risks of wildland-urban interface fires, showing fire emissions in populated areas are three times more likely to lead to annual premature deaths than emissions from ...
The smoke from fires that blaze through the wildland-urban interface (WUI) has far greater health impacts than smoke from ...
Wildfire smoke from the Western United States and Canada is blowing across the Northeast, lowering air quality and endangering vulnerable populations. By Austyn Gaffney Wildfire smoke from hundreds of ...
The smoke from fires that blaze through the wildland-urban interface (WUI) has far greater health impacts than smoke from wildfires in remote areas, new research finds. The study, published this week ...