Health experts are urging Washingtonians to prepare for more of what they suffered through last September — what the Department of Ecology called an unprecedented smoky siege. It lasted nearly two weeks. For one five-day period, every air quality monitor in the state registered unhealthy levels.
Increasing exposure to wildfire smoke, brought courtesy of climate change, is unhealthy not just for the 894,000 residents who live with asthma or chronic lung disease. And not just for children, pregnant women and the elderly, though they are also at special risk. Smoke is bad for everybody.
“There is no safe level of smoke,” said Carrie Nyssen, senior director of advocacy for
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