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In recent months, concern about the health risks wildland firefighters face has been growing. Now a major conference exploring that issue has started in Colorado.
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The federal government has issued new guidelines to wildland firefighters for the voluntary use of protective masks. The move comes as knowledge of long-term health risks faced by such workers – including cancer – grows.
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More hot days and more smoky days are affecting our children's health now and in the future.
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The National Firefighter Registry is perhaps the most ambitious effort to date to understand the connection between firefighting and cancer.
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Over the last few years, more information has come out about the long-term health risks of wildland firefighting, which most recently has included carcinogen exposure.
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Researchers pored over roughly four dozen papers that assessed exposure to various carcinogens on the fireline. They identified 31 carcinogens – including asbestos, volatile organic compounds like benzene and crystalline silica.
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It’s not your imagination. Air quality experts say wildfire smoke has been worse than usual this summer in Idaho.
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The University of California Davis Health system has developed a system to identify such at-risk patients and ensure they have access to care during heavy smoke events. Researchers there are calling for other health systems in smoke-impacted communities to adopt a similar approach.
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A new study finds “robust” evidence of significant gene expression changes in the brains of mice exposed to levels of wildfire smoke comparable to those of long-time wildland firefighters. One of the authors says there the level of change was surprising, and a cause for concern.
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With 77 large wildfires burning in the United States, there is lots of smoke in the air, and this smoke can have big impacts on your health.