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What can Fire do to the human body?
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How to tell if smoke is affecting you?
https://www.health.ny.gov/environmental/outdoors/air/smoke_from_fire.htm
http://serc.carleton.edu/NAGTWorkshops/health/case_studies/smoke_ash.html
http://www.iaff.org/smokefree/specialrisks.asp
http://www.airnow.gov/index.cfm?action=smoke.index
Smoke can irritate the eyes and airways, causing coughing and a scratchy throat. If you have heart or lung disease the smoke that your breathing in can make your symptoms worse.
The Different Risks that Fire Causes for the Human Body
Wildfires
Smoldering ponderosa pine fires contain alkaloids. Alkaloids are a group of naturally occurring chemical compounds that contain mostly basic nitrogen atoms that cause the person to suffocate and cough in a minimal matter.
House Fire
House fires produce much more poisonous chemicals that can harm the body such as carbon monoxide and hydrogen cyanide which doesn't have a scent.
What can somke from fires do to the human body?
Risks for Lungs Disease for Firefighters
What does fire smoke contain?
Fire fighter face serious risks on the job. they face heat flames, physical and mental stress, and other toxic risks in the areas around fire. All fire firghter's have a high risk for many of them getting a diseases. Fire fighters who smoke have a more greater risk, when smoking increases the risk of getting heart disease or either cancer and many other diseases.
Some fires can contain soot or particle matter, carbon dioxide. Smoke can also contain many different other chemicals as well. The smoke released any type of fire (forest, brush, crop, structure, tires, waste, or wood burning) is a mixture of particles and chemicals produced by incomplete of carbon-containing materials.
What happens to the human body when inhaling smoke?
When inhaling smoke is the type and the amount of chemicals and particles found in smoke varies depending on what is burning, and how much oxygen is available, and also what temperature the fire is burning at.