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A new kind of pollution — wildfire smoke — can cause health issues

A new kind of pollution — wildfire smoke — can cause health issues
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Smoke fills the skies as a neighbor helps a family remove animals from their home while the El Dorado fire burns close to a house on Kevari Court in gusty winds and low visibility in Yucaipa on Sunday, September 6, 2020. (Photo by Terry Pierson, The Press-Enterprise/SCNG) It’s a domino effect Southern Californians know all too well: When there’s extreme heat, there are fires. And when there are fires, there’s smoke. And when there’s smoke, there is insidious air pollution. The pattern, caused by four fires still burning in Los Angeles, San Bernardino and Riverside counties, is producing columns of smoke that collapse, spreading lung-damaging soot for hundreds of miles. After record-breaking heat and explosive fires over the Labor Day weekend, lingering fire clouds … […]

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