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 From LA's Wildfire Smoke
The smoke throughout LA can cause immediate health problems like asthma, while VOCs can lead to long-term effects like cancer and dementia. A doctor explains the risks.
What to know about the dangers of wildfire smoke
Wildfire smoke produces particles in the air that can damage your lungs and respiratory system. Here are some ways to protect yourself.
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.
Explainer-What are the health risks from wildfire smoke?
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.
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.
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.
How to stay safe from wildfire smoke
Staying indoors and making sure the air quality in your home is clean from wildfire smoke are two of the CDC's top safety recommendations.
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.
Southern California fire weather expected to linger. What does that mean for air quality?
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