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Forest Fires Could Spread Pollutants

US News & World Report - Thu Dec 3, 12:16 pm ET

Chemicals bond to smoke particles, and can then be transported across great distances.

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ASU Seminar: 'Many Facets of Climate Change in Arizona'
PR Newswire via Yahoo! News - Mon Nov 23, 5:28 pm ET
TEMPE, Ariz., Nov. 23 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- On February 2, 2005, Arizona Governor Janet Napolitano signed an Executive Order stating that "Arizona and other Western States have particular concerns about the impacts of climate change and climate variability on the environment, including the potential for prolonged drought, severe forest fires, warmer temperatures, increased snowmelt, reduced ...
Winds blow ash from burn areas in LA area
The San Francisco Examiner - Tue Nov 24, 8:39 pm ET
LOS ANGELES — Ash and dust from areas burned by recent wildfires is being blown across Los Angeles County by gusty Santa Ana winds. The South Coast Air Quality Management District says ash fell Tuesday in the San Fernando and San Gabriel valleys, north and east of downtown Los Angeles.
Wildfire Erupts in La Brea Heights
KTLA-TV Los Angeles - Mon Nov 23, 5:41 pm ET
LA HABRA -- L.A. County firefighters have gained the upper hand on a small brush fire in La Habra Heights.
Washington lawmakers review 'no man's land' fires
Seattle Times - Tue Nov 24, 12:39 pm ET
A half-dozen state lawmakers attended a meeting at Sunnyside where about 100 people discussed the response to the Dry Creek wildfire last August that burned 77 square miles.
Penn Forest fire companies set for public meeting Monday night
Times News - Sat Nov 21, 9:19 am ET
Representatives from both volunteer fire companies in Penn Forest are preparing this weekend for an important public meeting to be held Monday night (Nov. 23) at 7 p.m. at the Penn Forest Volunteer Fire Company No. 1 on State Route 903. The meeting was called by Penn Forest Supervisors and will allow officials from both emergency services companies to answer questions from residents about a ...
State looking for firefighters
The Spectrum - Tue Nov 24, 6:21 pm ET
ST. GEORGE - State and federal agencies are recruiting firefighters for next year's wildfire season.
Another Mudslide Community Meeting Tonight
LAist - Mon Nov 23, 11:15 am ET
The City, County, LAPD and others have been holding a series of community meetings in wildfire-scorn areas that could soon be affected by damaging and sometimes deadly debris flows and flooding that tend to happen on rainy days. Four recent fire areas are concerning officials: the Sayre, Sessnon, Marek, and Station fires. If you live in those areas and want to go, the meeting is tonight at 6:30 ...
Smokey now says: 'Only you can prevent wildfires'
The News Herald - Sat Nov 21, 7:55 pm ET
PANAMA CITY — Smokey the Bear is one of America’s most identifiable advertising cartoons. The image — a brown bear in blue jeans with a ranger’s hat, gripping a shovel — has stayed the same since Smokey’s creation in 1944, but his message...
Wild Fire Season To Officially End Saturday
KERO 23 Bakersfield - Thu Nov 19, 2:07 pm ET
The U.S. Forest Service (USFS), Bureau of Land Management (BLM), Tule River Reservation Fire Department (TIA) and Kern County Fire Department (KCFD) will officially declare the end of the 2009 wildland fire season on Saturday, November 21.
California wildfire 100 percent contained
AP via Yahoo! News - Wed Nov 18, 11:35 pm ET
Firefighters have fully surrounded a 145-acre wildfire in Southern California.