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CDC: Cloth masks will not protect against wildfire smoke
Experts say the cloth masks having been and continuing to be worn to protect people from contracting COVID-19, offer no protection against smoke because of the particulate size. Share Updated: 5:42 PM PDT Jul 24, 2021
CDC: Cloth masks will not protect against wildfire smoke
Experts say the cloth masks having been and continuing to be worn to protect people from contracting COVID-19, offer no protection against smoke because of the particulate size. Share Updated: 5:42 PM PDT Jul 24, 2021
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Show Transcript EVEN MAKE THINGS MORE DANGEROUS. DEMOLISHING OVER 100,000 ACRES, DISPLACING ENTIRE TOWNS, FILLING OUR SKY AND LUNGS FULL OF SMOKE. THE CDC NOW ADVISING THOSE CLOTH MASKS WE WORTON PROTECT OURSELVES FROM COVID DO NOTNGHI TO PROTECT US FROM WILDFIRES. E W ARE LOOKING AT TINY PARTICLES THAT WILL PSAS THROUGH THOSE CLOTH SKS.MA SPECIALIZINING PULMONARY AND CRITICAL CARE
California wildfire smoke moves into Sacramento Valley Share Updated: 6:10 PM PDT Jul 23, 2021 KCRA Staff Share Updated: 6:10 PM PDT Jul 23, 2021
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Show Transcript And let s show you the smoke from the Sacramento area. Live copter three is over northern California county. Northern California. Right now we re in Sacramento County and viewers called us about seeing some smelling smoke in Roseville in Auburn today. But we re happy to say the smoke has moved on through. Let s check back in with Mark and he s been tracking the air quality Mark well and you can see it, you can see the huge smoke plume from the fire burning to the north. We ll look at that area. Smoke that came down the east side of the valley so impacted plaster County Eldorado County the in the late morning and through the early afternoon and many of you did smell that smoke. But now it is beginning to thin out and you can just trace that. So there it is coming
Wildfire updates: Dixie Fire now largest in California; smoke enters the Sacramento Valley
Sacramento Bee 3 hrs ago Amelia Davidson, The Sacramento Bee
Jul. 23 As California s fire season rages on and firefighters take on multiple blazes, the Dixie Fire has become the state s largest wildfire this year to date and is driving smoke into the Sacramento Valley.
The Dixie Fire is burning on the border of Butte and Plumas counties, in the burn scar of the deadly 2018 Camp Fire. It has rapidly expanded to 142,960 acres (223 square miles), growing nearly 40,000 acres since Thursday morning.
Although most of the smoke from the fire has pushed east into Nevada, small amounts drifted south into the Sacramento area Friday afternoon, affecting capital residents for the first time since the fire began July 14.
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