Indoor air quality suffers during wildfires
Every year, wildfires across the western U.S. and Canada send plumes of smoke into the sky. When that smoke blows into southwestern Idaho, it blankets Boise-area residents in dirty air.
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Every year, wildfires across the western U.S. and Canada send plumes of smoke into the sky. When that smoke blows into southwestern Idaho, it blankets Boise-area residents in dirty air.
Data collected from six facilities in 2021, including two in the Missoula area, showed that in some buildings indoor and outdoor air quality were almost identical on smoky days.
"An astonishing amount of smoke gets inside these facilities," said one researcher who spent the past three wildfire seasons collecting data from monitors installed in long-term care facilities.
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