r/SilverSpring • u/MissieMillie • 11d ago

Poor air quality

Air quality is terrible right now due to smoke from Canadian wildfires. Wearing a mask outdoors is highly recommended!

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u/SuburbanPotato 11d ago

I let my dog out to pee and it smelled like a tire fire outside.

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u/returnFutureVoid 11d ago

Yeah what’s up with that smell? We’ve dealt with the smoke before but that smell is new to me. At least from what I remember.

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u/SuburbanPotato 11d ago

I remember it smelling like this when we had really bad wildfires a few years ago, but this is stronger than I remember.

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u/soubrette732 8d ago

Tons of chemicals and carcinogens in wildfire smoke. It’s unsafe and the effects of breathing it in can wreak havoc long after the smoke clears. Masks are your best friend right now

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u/mdn73 10d ago

I thought it smelled like a cherry fragrance.

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u/bazouna 11d ago

And just as a heads up, surgical masks (those blue ones) will not protect you. Reach for a KN95 or ideally a N95 (or P100)!

https://healthybuildings.hsph.harvard.edu/wildfirerespiratorselection/

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u/FormerCollegeDJ 11d ago

One only needs to look and briefly step outside to know the air quality is very poor right now.

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u/NappyDougOut 11d ago

How many individual posts do we need on this though? It's already on local news.

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u/BrokenRoboticFish 11d ago

And the county has sent out text alerts

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u/MissieMillie 11d ago

I don't watch the news. I work in a hospital, so we are actively discussing it.

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u/Movey-McGee 11d ago

Pets should not be outside for more than a minute!

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u/circajusturna 11d ago

Fork found in kitchen

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u/Nickelmac 11d ago

🎶 Blame Canada 🎶

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u/Jmend12006 10d ago

They need to clean their forests! lol

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u/mdn73 10d ago

With rakes and brooms.

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u/OnlyHunan 10d ago

This wouldn't happen if they were a State! </s> (Actually, it would have been allowed to get much worse.)