{"id":19800,"date":"2025-01-11T14:16:12","date_gmt":"2025-01-11T15:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=19800"},"modified":"2025-01-11T15:25:50","modified_gmt":"2025-01-11T15:25:50","slug":"far-from-the-fires-the-deadly-risks-of-smoke-are-intensifying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=19800","title":{"rendered":"Far From the Fires, the Deadly Risks of Smoke Are Intensifying"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Researchers see a growing health danger from the vast plumes of pollution spawned by wildfires like the ones devastating Los Angeles.<\/p>\n

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It kills more people each year than car crashes, war or drugs do. This invisible killer is the air pollution from sources like cars and trucks or factory smokestacks.<\/p>\n

But as wildfires intensify and grow more frequent in a warming world, the smoke from these fires is emerging as a new and deadly pollution source, health experts say. By some estimates, wildfire smoke \u2014 which contains a mixture of hazardous air pollutants like particulate matter, nitrogen dioxide, ozone and lead \u2014 already causes as many as 675,000 premature deaths<\/a> a year worldwide, as well as a range of respiratory, heart and other diseases<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Research shows that wildfire smoke is starting to erode the world\u2019s progress<\/a> in cleaning up pollution from tailpipes and smokestacks, as climate change supercharges fires<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s heartbreaking, it really is,\u201d said Dr. Afif El-Hasan, a pediatrician who specializes in asthma care at Kaiser Permanente in Southern California and a board director of the American Lung Association. Wildfires \u201care putting our homes in danger, but they\u2019re also putting our health in danger,\u201d Dr. El-Hasan said, \u201cand it\u2019s only going to get worse.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Those health concerns were coming to the fore this week as wildfires ravaged the Los Angeles area. Residents began to return to their neighborhoods<\/a>, many strewed with smoldering ash and rubble, to survey the damage. Air pollution levels remained high in many parts of the city<\/a>, including in northwest coastal Los Angeles, where the air quality index climbed to \u201cdangerous\u201d levels.<\/p>\n

Los Angeles, in particular, has seen air pollution at levels that could be raising daily mortality by between 5 to 15 percent, said Carlos F. Gold, an expert in the health effects of air pollution at the University of California, San Diego.<\/p>\n

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Researchers see a growing health danger from the vast plumes of pollution spawned by wildfires like the ones devastating Los Angeles.It kills more people each year than car crashes, war or drugs do. This invisible killer is the air pollution from sources like cars and trucks or factory smokestacks.But as wildfires intensify and grow more frequent in a warming world, the smoke from these fires is emerging as a new and deadly pollution source, health experts say. By some estimates, wildfire smoke \u2014 which contains a mixture of hazardous air pollutants like particulate matter, nitrogen dioxide, ozone and lead \u2014 already causes as many as 675,000 premature deaths a year worldwide, as well as a range of respiratory, heart and other diseases.Research shows that wildfire smoke is starting to erode the world\u2019s progress in cleaning up pollution from tailpipes and smokestacks, as climate change supercharges fires.\u201cIt\u2019s heartbreaking, it really is,\u201d said Dr. Afif El-Hasan, a pediatrician who specializes in asthma care at Kaiser Permanente in Southern California and a board director of the American Lung Association. Wildfires \u201care putting our homes in danger, but they\u2019re also putting our health in danger,\u201d Dr. El-Hasan said, \u201cand it\u2019s only going to get worse.\u201dThose health concerns were coming to the fore this week as wildfires ravaged the Los Angeles area. Residents began to return to their neighborhoods, many strewed with smoldering ash and rubble, to survey the damage. Air pollution levels remained high in many parts of the city, including in northwest coastal Los Angeles, where the air quality index climbed to \u201cdangerous\u201d levels.Los Angeles, in particular, has seen air pollution at levels that could be raising daily mortality by between 5 to 15 percent, said Carlos F. Gold, an expert in the health effects of air pollution at the University of California, San Diego.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19802,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19800"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19800\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19803,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19800\/revisions\/19803"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}