Canadian wildfire smoke disrupting air quality for millions of Americans: ‘Can travel deep into the lungs’

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From FoxNews:

The air quality in the New England states may be unhealthy for millions of Americans right now – especially for those with underlying medical conditions – due to a surge in Canadian wildfires in Quebec and northern Ontario, according to a recent Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) press release. Areas predicted to exceed the federal air quality standard for 24-hour particle pollution level concentrations on June 6 are: Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire (central, south and western parts of the state), Rhode Island, and Vermont," the statement reads. The Quebec province had 387 forest fires this year, which is nearly double the 10-year average of 197, according to SOPFEU, a Canadian nonprofit whose mission is fire prevention.
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Canadian wildfire smoke disrupting air quality for millions of Americans: ‘Can travel deep into the lungs’

A surge of wildfires in Canada is affecting the air quality in the New England states and parts of the Northeast, and the air may be unhealthy for millions of Americans right now.

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[Everlasting Life]

One can use a box fan and attach a high quality hvac filter to it with a rope or cord in order to filter smokey air in the home.

 

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One can use a box fan and attach a high quality hvac filter to it with a rope or cord in order to filter smokey air in the home.

Conversely, we can point them towards Canada and give them their smoke back! XD

 

[Tall Timbers]

What doesn't kill you will make you stronger.

 

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What doesn't kill you make you stronger.

Alternately: That which does not kill me may sever my spinal cord, crush my rib cage, cave in my skull and leave me helpless and paralyzed, soaking in a puddle of my own waste.

Not no mention: make the LGBTQ+ feel I offended them.

 

[3Nails4Given]

What doesn't kill you make you stronger.

Except smoke, smoke will kill you. Ask firefighters what kills more? Smoke or Fire? I was in the house when my grandmother accidentally set the kitchen on fire.

My oldest daughter was 3. I had her for the weekend. I ran outside and sat her by the car and told her don’t move.

Thankfully the girl across the street, who was cutting her grass, saw me run out out of the house with my daughter and figured something was wrong. I yelled at her to call 911 our house was on fire.

In less than 1 minute the entire house had filled with black smoke, down to about one foot above the floor.

My grandmother, who was supposed to be on oxygen, had ran into the kitchen. I had to get her out of the house. I was thinking I was going to have to drag her out.

Somehow she had managed to get the flaming pan of grease and run out the back door with it and smothered it out with a towel. The stove and cabinets were on fire, the old house was built out of yellow pine. I figured it was a goner.

Somehow my grandmother and I were able to beat the flames out with towels. I barely managed to get her out of the front door, before I went back to try and save the house.

I don’t know how I didn’t pass out. As I went back into the house, a firefighter passed me going into the kitchen with a hose. It didn’t take much to put out what was left on fire.

They brought two of those evac fans put one in the open back door and one in the front door. It didn’t take those fans long to get the smoke out.

The Lord was with us that day. My mom was at work. I was off work and spending time with my daughter.

The firefighters had my grandmother in a rocking chair on the porch giving her oxygen. She had some burns on her hands and arms but refused to go to the hospital. She was a tough old hen she was 82 then.

I’d had some firefighter training in the Coast Guard and some at work, but I was still amazed how quickly that house filled with smoke as soon as the kitchen door was opened.

I shut that door back to the kitchen when I tried to find my grandmother and couldn’t find her. That was a horrible feeling. I got my daughter out and went back in for my grandmother.

If my neighbor hadn’t called 911 for me it could have turned out much worse. I’ll never forget that day.

Twenty years later my mother in law set her kitchen on fire. My father in law was still alive then at 84 and he put the fire out with a fire extinguisher.

We live about 8 miles from them and I beat the fire truck to their house.

My grandmothers fire did $8,000 in insurance damages. My mother in laws fire did over $15,000. My MIL’s damages were mostly from the smoke. Almost every room in her house had to be repainted. Plus new cabinets in the kitchen, new flooring in kitchen and dining room.

 

[Tall Timbers]

Except smoke, smoke will kill you.

Here in Richmond IN there's a strong smoke haze. We've been driving through that all day. A local person was complaining to us about the smoke. I told him I used to think our neighbors to the north were good neighbors... but now I wasn't so sure any more, what with all the smoke they're sending our way. I didn't tell him I suspected many of the fires set are probably from US antifa doing the kinds of things they do for pay.

 

[mattfivefour]

Definitely smoke haze throughout central Illinois today. Hard on the lungs.

 

[boughtbygrace]

Definitely smoke haze throughout central Illinois today. Hard on the lungs.

 

[boughtbygrace]

And it stinks. My air purifier keeps fighting for air!

 

[3Nails4Given]

The smoke from those wildfires isn’t no joke. We get it here sometimes when there’s wildfires in the Okefenokee Swamp. One year Florida had a bunch of them burning and we had some bad days with that smoke too.

My son passed his firefighter state tests today, so he’s now a certified firefighter in Georgia. I’m hoping this is a temporary job while he tries to get a commission in the Air Force.