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Face-to-face with scorching wildfire: potential toxicant exposure and the health risks of smoke for wildland firefighters at the wildland-urban interface

The Lancet Regional Health. Americas, 2023
Summary: As wildfire risks have elevated due to climate change, the health risks that toxicants from fire smoke pose to wildland firefighters have been exacerbated.
Jooyeon Hwang, Ngee-Sing Chong, Mengliang Zhang, Robert J. Agnew, Chao Xu, Zhuangjie Li, Xin Xu   +6 more
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Smoke emissions from wildland fires [PDF]

Environment International, 1991
Biomass burning is a major source of emissions to the atmosphere. Some of these emissions may change global climate. This paper uses combustion efficiency as an independent variable for predicting emission factors for, among others, carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, methane, and particulate matter.
Darold E. Ward, Colin C. Hardy
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Wildland fire, air pollution and cardiovascular health: is it time to focus on the microvasculature as a risk assessment tool?

Frontiers in Physiology, 2023
Climate change favors weather conditions conducive to wildland fires. The intensity and frequency of forest fires are increasing, and fire seasons are lengthening.
Nazgol Naserinejad, Christy Costanian, Christy Costanian, Olivier Birot, Toussaint Barboni, Emilie Roudier, Emilie Roudier   +6 more
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Approaches for Addressing Wildfire Smoke In the United States and Canada with Implications for Integrated Fire Management

Biodiversidade Brasileira, 2019
Where there is fire, there is smoke.  Air quality impacts from wildfires have become significant health events in the United States and Canada. These incidents are commonly the highest air pollution exposures that face the American The same situation ...
Peter Lahm
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Wildland firefighter exposure to smoke and COVID-19: A new risk on the fire line [PDF]

Science of The Total Environment, 2021
Throughout the United States, wildland firefighters respond to wildfires, performing arduous work in remote locations. Wildfire incidents can be an ideal environment for the transmission of infectious diseases, particularly for wildland firefighters who congregate in work and living settings.
Navarro, Kathleen M, Clark, Kathleen A, Hardt, Daniel J, Reid, Colleen E, Lahm, Peter W, Domitrovich, Joseph W, Butler, Corey R, Balmes, John R   +7 more
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Comparison of ozone measurement methods in biomass burning smoke: an evaluation under field and laboratory conditions [PDF]

Atmospheric Measurement Techniques, 2021
In recent years wildland fires in the United States have had significant impacts on local and regional air quality and negative human health outcomes.
R. W. Long, A. Whitehill, A. Habel, S. Urbanski, H. Halliday, M. Colón, S. Kaushik, M. S. Landis   +7 more
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Hurricane and Tropical Storm Impacts on Prescribed Fire and Wildfire Management Practices

EDIS, 2022
Hurricanes and tropical storms can significantly alter forested and non-forested areas, creating unique hazards and considerations for wildland firefighters and prescribed burners.
David R. Godwin, Breanne Ward, Jennifer E. Fawcett, Gary C. Wood, Raelene M. Crandall   +4 more
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Compounding Human and Bioclimatic Factors Driving the Global Fire Crisis. [PDF]

Glob Chang Biol
The global fire crisis has emerged from centuries of disruptions to coupled social‐ecological systems that govern fire regimes. ABSTRACT Over millennia, social and ecological systems have been shaped by fire and have in turn shaped fire regimes. However, recent decades have seen an escalating “fire crisis” characterized by an increasing incidence of ...
Nolan RH, Cawson JG, Collins L, Hart SJ, Roos CI.   +4 more
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Mobilizing through dialogue: building interdisciplinary partnerships among forest health, wildland fire, and public health sectors to find solutions to address the impact of wildland fire smoke on communities

Environmental Research Communications, 2023
The impact of smoke from wildland fires on communities across the western United States is an interdisciplinary crisis that requires an interdisciplinary solution.
SM D’Evelyn, M Blancas, M Pollowitz, RD Haugo, YJ Masuda, SJ Prichard, K Ray, EG Walker, JT Spector   +8 more
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Special Issue Air Quality and Smoke Management

Atmosphere, 2020
The Atmosphere Special Issue “Special Issue Air Quality and Smoke Management” explores our ability to simulate wildland fire smoke events and the potential to link such modeling to future studies of human health impacts [...]
Scott L. Goodrick
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