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For decades, studies have consistently linked higher wildfire smoke exposure to increased cardiovascular and lung issues, cancer and premature death. 0.900

👤 Hannah Dreier 📋 News Article 🏷️ Health , Science

Simplified: Studies link wildfire smoke exposure to cardiovascular lung issues cancer premature death

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They are getting cancer in their 20s, developing heart disease in their 30s, waiting for lung transplants in their 40s. 0.800

👤 Hannah Dreier 📋 News Article 🏷️ Health

Simplified: Firefighters are getting cancer in 20s heart disease in 30s lung transplants in 40s

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Some struggle to walk up a flight of stairs after seasons spent in smoke. 0.800

👤 Hannah Dreier 📋 News Article 🏷️ Health

Simplified: Some firefighters struggle to walk up stairs after seasons in smoke

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Others have become permanently disabled after breathing in concentrated plumes of ash, fungus or poison oak. 0.800

👤 Hannah Dreier 📋 News Article 🏷️ Health

Simplified: Some firefighters are permanently disabled after breathing ash fungus poison oak

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Firefighters often work almost year-round. 0.900

👤 Hannah Dreier 📋 News Article 🏷️ Work

Simplified: Firefighters often work almost year-round

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Now, as the United States sees more drought and extreme heat, forest fires are starting earlier in the year, burning longer and expanding further. 0.900

👤 Hannah Dreier 📋 News Article 🏷️ Environment

Simplified: Forest fires are starting earlier burning longer expanding further due to drought extreme heat

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They might have experienced only a few bad smoke days a year and had the winter and spring to recover. 0.800

👤 Hannah Dreier 📋 News Article 🏷️ Historical

Simplified: Wildfire crews experienced few bad smoke days a year recovered in winter spring

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Across the country, tens of thousands of people who fight wildfires spend weeks working in toxic smoke and ash wearing only a cloth bandanna, or nothing at all. 0.900

👤 Hannah Dreier 📋 News Article 🏷️ Safety

Simplified: Tens of thousands of wildfire fighters work in toxic smoke wearing bandanna or nothing

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Wildfire crews were once seasonal laborers who fit in deployments between other jobs. 0.900

👤 Hannah Dreier 📋 News Article 🏷️ Historical

Simplified: Wildfire crews were seasonal laborers fitting deployments between jobs

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It would be unthinkable for urban firefighters — those American icons who loom large in the public imagination — to enter a burning building without wearing a mask. 0.900

👤 Hannah Dreier 📋 News Article 🏷️ Safety

Simplified: Urban firefighters would not enter burning building without mask

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At the hospital, doctors discovered blood clots in his lungs and a mass pressing on his heart. 0.900

👤 Hannah Dreier 📋 News Article 🏷️ Health

Simplified: Doctors discovered blood clots in lungs mass pressing on heart of Fernando Allende

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They gave him a diagnosis usually seen in much older people: non-Hodgkin lymphoma, an aggressive cancer. 0.900

👤 Hannah Dreier 📋 News Article 🏷️ Health

Simplified: Fernando Allende received non-Hodgkin lymphoma diagnosis usually seen in older people

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Fernando Allende, a 33-year-old whose U.S. Forest Service crew was among the first on the ground, figured he would bounce back from his nagging cough. 0.900

👤 Hannah Dreier 📋 News Article 🏷️ Health

Simplified: Fernando Allende 33 U.S. Forest Service crew expected to recover from cough

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One damaged his vocal cords so badly that his young son says he sounds like a supervillain. 0.700

👤 Hannah Dreier 📋 News Article 🏷️ Health

Simplified: One firefighter damaged vocal cords sounds like supervillain according to son

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Another used to run a six-minute mile and now struggles to run at all. 0.800

👤 Hannah Dreier 📋 News Article 🏷️ Health

Simplified: One firefighter used to run six-minute mile now struggles to run

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Firefighters who responded developed instant migraines, coughed up black goo and dropped to their knees, vomiting and dizzy. 0.900

👤 Hannah Dreier 📋 News Article 🏷️ Health , Safety

Simplified: Firefighters developed migraines coughed up black goo dropped to knees vomiting dizzy

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Seven months later, some are still jolted awake by wheezing fits in the middle of the night. 0.800

👤 Hannah Dreier 📋 News Article 🏷️ Health , Safety

Simplified: Some firefighters are still jolted awake by wheezing fits seven months later

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The smoke from the wildfires that burned through Los Angeles in January smelled like plastic and was so thick that it hid the ocean. 0.900

👤 Hannah Dreier 📋 News Article 🏷️ Environment , Health

Simplified: Wildfire smoke in Los Angeles January smelled like plastic hid the ocean

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“It was toxic,” he said. 0.900

👤 Allende 📋 News Article 🏷️ Health , Safety

Simplified: Allende said the smoke was toxic

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He had been instructed to stay away from the sun and avoid crowds, so he was spending the summer inside. 0.900

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Health

Simplified: Allende was instructed to avoid sun crowds spending summer inside

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