{"id":10374,"date":"2024-09-02T19:21:49","date_gmt":"2024-09-02T19:21:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thecannabist.co\/2024\/09\/02\/how-wildfire-smoke-retardant-slurry-impact-human-health-environment\/136580\/"},"modified":"2024-09-02T19:21:49","modified_gmt":"2024-09-02T19:21:49","slug":"how-wildfire-smoke-retardant-slurry-impact-human-health-environment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/how-wildfire-smoke-retardant-slurry-impact-human-health-environment\/","title":{"rendered":"How wildfire smoke, retardant slurry impact human health, environment"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 0 5px 5px;float:right;height:100px;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/how-wildfire-smoke-retardant-slurry-impact-human-health-environment\/\" send=\"true\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div><div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecannabist.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/DCC-L-LYONSFIRE_1MJ5654-560x373.jpg\"><img src=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/how-wildfire-smoke-retardant-slurry-impact-human-health-environment.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div><img src=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/how-wildfire-smoke-retardant-slurry-impact-human-health-environment-2.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"large-10 large-centered small-12 columns\">\n<div class=\"yarpp yarpp-related yarpp-related-website yarpp-template-yarpp-template-inarticle-right\">\n<aside class=\"article-related right\">\n<h3>Related Articles<\/h3>\n<\/aside>\n<\/div>\n<p>While flames may be the most visual wildfire danger, experts say smoke and fire retardant slurry can have long-lasting effects on human health and the environment.<\/p>\n<p>New research has linked wildfire smoke exposure to higher rates of dementia, reproductive health issues and lung and heart disease, and forest service employees say the iconic, red fire retardant slurry dropped out of planes has been linked to thousands of fish kills.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are hundreds of gases that are emitted from wildfire smoke, some of them in very, very small quantities,\u201d National Center for Atmospheric Research scientist Rebecca Hornbrook said. \u201cSome \u2014 like carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide and nitrogen oxides \u2014 are emitted in higher quantities, but some of those smaller quantity gases are actually even more toxic.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/2024\/09\/02\/colorado-wildfires-smoke-exposure-fire-retardant-slurry\/\">Read the rest of this story on TheKnow.DenverPost.com.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Related Articles While flames may be the most visual wildfire danger, experts say smoke and fire retardant slurry can have long-lasting effects on human health and the environment. New research has linked wildfire smoke exposure to higher rates of dementia, reproductive health issues and lung and heart disease, and forest service employees say the iconic, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6464,1344,2435,7454,6892,9,1,3,7585,881,61,1736],"tags":[6466,3914,2436,7458,6893,7589,3454],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10374"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10374\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}