Klamath County Public
Health
The
Air Quality Advisory for today Monday April 29, until noon, tomorrow Tuesday
April 30, IS GREEN
The
Green
Advisory Call means:
1. ALL WOODSTOVES,
PELLET STOVES AND FIREPLACES MAY BE USED INSIDE AND OUTSIDE THE AQ ZONE as
per Klamath County Ordinance 406.100.
2. Outdoor burning is
allowed outside the Air Quality Zone. Check with your local fire district for
their open burn permit.
3. Outdoor burning is prohibited inside the Air
Quality Zone.
The 2019 Spring Open Burn Window ended yesterday.
Outdoor burning inside the Air Quality Zone is prohibited.
Air Quality Awareness Week, begins today. EPA
will make the website live today Monday, April 29, the first day of AQAW (see
https://www.airnow.gov/airaware).
- Monday - Your Heart & Lungs
- Tuesday - Wildfires & Smoke
- Wednesday - Air Quality Index & Sensors
- Thursday - Air Quality in Your Community
- Friday - Air Quality Around the World
Check the AQI and Get Outside
People with asthma, chronic obstructive
pulmonary disease (COPD), and heart disease are more affected by poor air
quality. Just in the US, people affected include:
And one person can have all these
conditions!
I'm
Air Aware
In
March, CDC and EPA launched “Air Aware,” a social media campaign to raise
awareness of the risks of poor air quality and how AirNow and the AQI can help
protect the health of people with asthma, COPD, and heart disease. https://www.cdc.gov/air/air_health.htm
Exercise is key in both pulmonary and
cardiac rehabilitation and helps maintain health. It’s ok to be active! But the
people most sensitive to air pollution should take steps to protect themselves.
These steps include:
- exercising outdoors--but away from
busy roads--when the AQI says air quality is good;
- exercising indoors when the AQI
says air quality is poor; and
- keeping indoor air clean by not
smoking indoors or using poorly ventilated wood burning stoves or
fireplaces and cutting down on vacuuming, burning candles or incense, and
frying foods
Older people, and people with lung or heart
disease, are more sensitive to adverse health effects from air pollution.
Short-term exposure to unhealthy air quality contributes to respiratory and
cardiovascular complaints. Short- and long-term exposure to particle pollution
causes cardiovascular health effects and mortality, and is likely to cause
respiratory health effects.
The Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC), the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, and the
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recommend that people at higher risk of
health problems caused by air pollution use the Air Quality Index (AQI) to
learn about their local air quality and actions they can take to reduce
exposure.
Learn more about the Air Quality Index at AirNow.gov
References:
R,
Gong J, Barratt B, Ohman-Strickland P, Ernst S, Kelly FJ, Zhang JJ, Collins P1,
Cullinan P, Chung KF. Respiratory and cardiovascular responses to walking down
a traffic-polluted road compared with walking in a traffic-free area in
participants aged 60 years and older with chronic lung or heart disease and
age-matched healthy controls: a randomised, crossover study. Lancet. 2018 Jan
27;391(10118):339-349.
