WILDFIRE SMOKE

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Wildfire Smoke Can Affect Your Health – What Can You Do

Incident: Salmon River Complex Wildfire
Released: 12/3/2012
Recent lightning storms have started wildfires all over the region. Though most of these fires are in Southern Oregon, smoke is impacting residents and visitors in Northern California.

People with respiratory issues should be especially cautious, but everybody is susceptible to effects from unhealthy air quality. There are a number of services and resources to help cope with the situation.
To help people plan outdoor activities, the Forest Service is working with Siskiyou County Air Quality Management District, Public Health and Office of Emergency Services to deploy additional air quality monitors in the area. There are now monitors in Yreka, Happy Camp, Weed, McCloud and Orleans, CA providing real-time data via satellite to anyone interested. This information is available at http://app.airsis.com/usfs/fleet.aspx. Another Forest Service monitor is scheduled for deployment in the Butte Valley over the weekend to come online early next week.

Siskiyou County offers a number of resources to support residents and visitors. The county Website at http://www.co.siskiyou.ca.us/default.aspx has a number of useful links and other information. People without Web access can call Air Pollution Specialist, Eric Olson at 530-841-4029 or Assistant Air Pollution Control Officer, Eldon Beck at 530-841-4029 for updates and advice.

The Karuk tribe has been operating a clean air shelter when conditions dictate at their Department of Natural Resources building in Orleans. Call 530-627-3446 to see if the center is open.

Additional Air Quality, Fire and Weather Monitoring Web Resources

• Siskiyou County Air Pollution Control District: http://www.co.siskiyou.ca.us/AG/apc.aspx

• Interagency Smoke Monitoring (Yreka): http://app.airsis.com/USFS/Chart_new.asp Get=4&UnitID=1014&CustID=11&sDate=7-31-2013

• Quality Assurance Air Quality Monitoring Information: http://www.arb.ca.gov/qaweb/site.php s_arb_code=47861 and http://www.arb.ca.gov/qaweb/districtselect.php a_airs_code=038

• NOAA Hazard mapping System: http://www.ospo.noaa.gov/Products/land/hms.html

• NASA Satellite Imagery: http://earthdata.nasa.gov/data/near-real-time-data/rapid-response

• Intellicast Weather and Lightning: http://www.intellicast.com/Storm/Severe/ThunderCast.aspx

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