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Incident: Yolla Bolly Complex Wildfire
Released: 7/27/2008
As reported in numerous newspapers throughout northern California, residents have been dealing with thick smoke from the area's wildfires since late June. In recent days, air quality indices, according to articles in the Redding Record Searchlight, has spiked to 226 points at several locations. Smoke particle concentrations over 150 are considered unhealthy. Here are a few sources of information for InciWeb readers regarding air quality and how smoke from wildfires can affect your health.
Air Quality (Information for the entire country -- state by state): http://airnow.gov
Also see the California Air Resources Board website for local information such as fact sheets; a library; publications; and links to Air Quality Management Districts and local Air Pollution Control Districts: http://www.arb.ca.gov/capcoa/dismap.htm
Smoke (at the airnow website listed above, click on the link titled "Smoke From Fires" which is found under the Key Topics heading at: http://airnow.gov/index.cfm action=smoke fires.main
Also at this site, you can find numerous documents and brochures about protecting yourself and family from smoke generated by both agricultural and forest fires, including: How Smoke From Fires Can Affect Your Health; CDC Wildfire Fact Sheet; and, Particle Pollution & Your Health.
