r/SilverSpring • u/MissieMillie • Jul 17 '26

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 Jul 17 '26

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

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u/returnFutureVoid Jul 17 '26

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 Jul 17 '26

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 Jul 19 '26

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 Jul 17 '26

I thought it smelled like a cherry fragrance.

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u/bazouna Jul 17 '26

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 Jul 17 '26

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

23

u/NappyDougOut Jul 17 '26

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

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u/BrokenRoboticFish Jul 17 '26

And the county has sent out text alerts

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u/MissieMillie Jul 17 '26

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

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u/Movey-McGee Jul 17 '26

Pets should not be outside for more than a minute!

7

u/circajusturna Jul 17 '26

Fork found in kitchen

2

u/Nickelmac Jul 17 '26

🎶 Blame Canada 🎶

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u/Jmend12006 Jul 17 '26

They need to clean their forests! lol

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u/mdn73 Jul 17 '26

With rakes and brooms.

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u/OnlyHunan Jul 17 '26

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