Health concerns around wildfire smoke, air quality, contaminated water, and even stress have created an unnerving number of potential effects that are just beginning to unfold. It comes as no ...

It was smoke from the Los Angeles wildfires. Rasmus Swalethorp and others on a routine month-long sampling mission aboard a government research vessel sprang into action. The presence of wildfire ...

LOS ANGELES – The explosion of smoke and ash that erupted from two wildfires was beyond belief. In the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains, as the Eaton fire engulfed homes and businesses ...

WINDBLOWN ASH FROM BURNED STRUCTURES MAY CONTAIN HIGHER AIR, TOXIC LEVELS, ASH AND WILDFIRE SMOKE HAVE LED TO UNHEALTHY AIR QUALITY AROUND LOS ANGELES. IT’S A COMMON THEME IN CALIFORNIA.

Most people appreciate that fires can cause burns and smoke inhalation, both of which can be life-threatening in their own right. What’s perhaps less well known is that both burns and smoke ...

The L.A. wildfires have coincided with a 16-fold rise in hospital visits for fire-related injuries, such as burns and smoke exposure. Although the smoke’s immediate effect has begun to dissipate ...

Experts lay bare the health effects of breathing in wildfire smoke and the steps that can be taken to reduce one's risk. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

By Hiroko Tabuchi Armed with two garden hoses hooked up to a sputtering tap, Matthew Craig battled fire and smoke to save his house from the onslaught of flames that devastated much of Altadena ...

turning house fires into chemical-laced infernos that burn hotter, faster, and more toxic than their predecessors. Firefighters are warning that the smoke pouring out of neighborhoods in Southern ...

The Los Angeles wildfires have killed at least two dozen people and decimated thousands of structures. Yet even in areas that aren’t burning, plumes of smoke remain a serious and ongoing public ...