Protect Yourself from Ash

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• Corporate Authors:
  California. Air Resources Board. ; United States, Environmental Protection Agency. ; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.) ; United States. Forest Service. ; California. Department of Public Health.
• Description:
  Protect yourself from harmful ash when you clean up after a wildfire. Cleanup work can expose you to ash and other products of the fire that may irritate your eyes, nose, or skin and cause coughing and other health effects. Ash inhaled deeply into lungs may cause asthma attacks and make it difficult to breathe.
  
  Ash is made up of larger and tiny particles (dust, dirt, and soot). Ash deposited on surfaces both indoors and outdoors can be inhaled if it becomes airborne when you clean up. Ash from burned structures is generally more hazardous than forest ash.
  
  protect-yourself-from-ash-factsheet.pdf
  
  
• Subjects:
  Environmental Exposure Particulate Matter Wildfires
• Series:
  Wildfire Smoke Factsheet
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Fact Sheet
• Pages in Document:
  2 unnumbered pages
• Collection(s):
  Stephen B. Thacker CDC Library
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:85d757958c866063d1f9a8686b04939ffbbda196505bb4073edfcc03270077d2642ecf5b5e3e9d038f1aa4efb930e787752597644365054d3a8994e8f62c2901
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/80625/cdc_80625_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
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