NIH R01 · 2024
Chronic Respiratory Effect and Control of Occupational Exposure of Wildland Firefighters to Smoke
Project Abstract Unlike the sporadic exposure of the general population in wildfire prone areas, exposure of wildland firefighters (WFFs) to WF smoke is recurrent, and has recently become more so due to the increase in the acreage of land burned by wildfires and prescribed (managed) fires. WFFs are exposed to elevated levels of WF smoke while working at wildland fires. The airborne concentrations of the reactive particles in WF smoke at the fireline are at least an order of magnitude higher than the health-based air quality standards in the U.S. The inhalation exposure of WFFs at the fireline is exacerbated because they work extended hours on multiple days per year at the fireline.…
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