Colette Bordelon is a reporter with Denver7.
DENVER — Tuesday marked the second day of lingering haze along the Denver skyline due to wildfire smoke drifting down from Canada and the Pacific Northwest.
“Particulate pollution is emitted directly into the atmosphere, like in wildfire smoke," Landes explained."Ozone is not emitted directly into the atmosphere. It's created through a very complex combination of atmospheric chemistry.” “There's the short and long-term effects on certainly the most vulnerable people. So people with lung disease, the very young, or the very elderly are just at higher risk from sort of the same level of pollution," said Gerber. “If this sticks around for a month, then we start to worry more about sort of bigger swaths of the population maybe being affected, maybe having some long-term increased risk of developing lung disease or developing heart disease or things like that.
Bad air quality from wildfires impacting Coloradans living east of the Continental Divide Tuesday Gerber said vulnerable populations should try to limit their time outdoors when air quality is unhealthy. With two boys under 10 years old, Harmony Cummings likes to capitalize on every opportunity to get outside. However, the haze on Tuesday kept the family indoors.
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