[Note: This article was originally published on Sept. 28, 2021.] The fierce wildfires that broke out across much of the western United States this summer, spreading smoke across hundreds of miles, ...

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Reza Ronaghi lost his home in the Los Angeles wildfires last week. "Not a single house survived in our two-block area," he said. Ronaghi is a pulmonologist at the University of California, Los Angeles ...

Smoke emanating from several California wildfires that started over the weekend is worsening air quality on both ends of the state and has prompted an advisory for Los Angeles County and Bay Area ...

You don’t have to live close to a wildfire to be affected by its smoke. With severe winds fanning the fires in and around Pacific Palisades, the Pasadena foothills and Simi Valley, huge swaths of the ...

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Much of the work to clean up smoke damage inside homes after the L.A. fires will be done by companies that specialize in this. However, there is some difference of opinion among these companies as to ...

Wildfire smoke can keep polluting your home long after the flames are out, with harmful chemicals lingering indoors even when ...

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