A doctor who lost his home to the Palisades Fire is working to protect against ash and airborne chemicals.

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Wildfire smoke, ash dangers: How one doctor is working to protect lungs and lives after losing home

Many residents of Los Angeles are now waiting to return to what's left of their homes. But even for those whose houses were spared, health concerns around smoke and ash will linger.

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Many residents of Los Angeles are now waiting to return to what’s left of their homes. But even for those whose houses were spared, health concerns around smoke and ash will linger. Source link The post Wildfire smoke, ash spark health concerns in L.A. appeared first on World ABC News.

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Public health officials and researchers urge the public to cover up outside and clean carefully indoors, but many low-income and disabled residents, and those lacking air conditioning, have difficulty staying safe in bad air.By Audrey Gray and Andrew RobinsonLOS ANGELES—The air here has many flavors this week, none of them reassuring: Smoky. Acrid. Unidentifiable.

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Rachel Wald always has a bit of a cold. That’s life when you have two kids younger than 5, she says. You’re always a little sick. But it wasn’t until after Wald and her family voluntarily fled the fires in Los Angeles that she realized the cough, sore throat, and itchy eyes she couldn’t shake were caused by the fires plaguing the city. “I don’t think I was really recognizing how much of it was not the cold, but the smoke,” she said. Wald, who is…

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Wildfire smoke is always toxic. LA's is even worse.

When Kate Gammon and her family fled their Santa Monica, Calif., home during the recent wildfires, she wasn’t sure what they would find when they returned.  Though they weren’t under an evacuation order, Gammon, who has asthma, told CBC News that the air quality was quickly worsening and the fires were volatile, so they left on Jan. 8, […]

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Public health officials and researchers urge the public to cover up outside and clean carefully indoors, but many low-income and disabled residents, and those lacking air conditioning, have difficulty staying safe in bad air. By Audrey Gray and Andrew Robinson LOS ANGELES-The air here has many flavors this week, none of them reassuring: Smoky. Acrid. Unidentifiable.

Wildfire smoke, ash dangers: How one doctor is working to protect lungs and lives after losing home

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