Safety tips for wildfire smoke

The National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion share these ways to help protect yourself from wildfire smoke.

• Reduce time outdoors. This can provide protection, especially in a tightly closed house where the air-conditioner can re-circulate air instead of bringing in outdoor air.
• Reduce time engaged in outdoor physical activity. This can be effective in lowering the dose of inhaled air pollutants.
• Reduce other sources of indoor air pollution that can emit the same pollutants found in wildfire smoke. Indoor sources such as burning cigarettes, gas, propane and wood-burning stoves and furnaces and activities such as cooking, burning candles and incense and vacuuming can greatly increase the particle levels in a home and should be avoided when wildfire smoke is present.