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Health & Safety: Increased Fire Danger

 Large forest fire

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  EPA Standards: Minimizing the Risk

  People, Air & Fire: The Burning Questions

  What should we all know about fire?

  Air Quality Timeline

 

Is fire inevitable? Why should I worry about it?

Yes, fire is inevitable. Here long before humans, fire is a natural part of the planet's ecology. In fact, the Earth has had the capacity to burn for the last 400 million years. Fueled by an unnatural build up of debris over many years of fire suppression, unplanned, catastrophic wildfires take a terrible toll on our health, safety, and welfare as well as the health of our priceless forests and rangelands, and this is what we should worry about.

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Catastrophic Wildfire

The Air Quality Threat

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