FARGO 鈥� This is one of the worst summers for wild fires in Canadian history, and every time the wind comes from the wrong direction, our region has gotten a reminder. For our area to get smoky, the wind does not have to come directly from the fires, but from anywhere old smoke has been lurking lately. Sometimes the smoke has just caused the blue to vanish from the sky. Other times the smoke has been driven down to the air we breathe near the ground.
Air quality alerts have confused some people who have wondered how this smoke is more harmful than the smoke from a little campfire. The answer is in the size of the particulates. Smoke from a massively hot wildfire hundreds of miles away is full of dangerous microparticles that can penetrate deeper into the lungs and cause more cell damage than ordinary wood smoke from a backyard fire.
The Trust Project
