After 13 seasons of fighting smoky wildfires in Ontario and B.C., Ian Sachs said his body started to feel the wear and tear.
“You’re often in smoke. Even on a small initial attack, you’re usually breathing smoke,” Sachs said.
“When you’re 22 and doing it, you don’t think about it. But once you get over 30 and you start feeling the burn, it creeps up on you. That I might have to think about this down the road.”
Sachs said the biggest thing he began to notice about acute smoke exposure was how it lingered in his body, especially when he and other FireRangers were often camped in close proximity to the
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