With wildfire season now in full swing, smoke will increasingly have an impact on air quality for people in southern Oregon.
Discovered the fire had spfor wy contained.
The ongoing fires could have effects on your health.
Newswatch 12's hailey gravitt joins us live from medford.
Hailey what are our public health officials recommending jackson county public health tells me everyone can become impacted by the smoke, feeling symptoms right away.
Tanya phillips with the jackson county public health says common symptoms as a dry cough, sore throat, and difficulty breathing are similar in both covid-19 and wildfire smoke exposure.
Phillips says that looking into the air quality can help with minimizing exposure.
One thing that we really do also encourage people to do is to take a look outside.
To gage you know what the air quality may be.
Because depending on our weather, the air quality can really diminish quickly.
Jackson county public health advices that everyone use the d-e-q...oregon air app when tracking local air quality.
As tracking local app when q...oregon air use the d-e-that everyone health advices county public health advices that everyone use the d-e-q...oregon air app when tracking local air quality.
As you can the oregon air app has a local air index to show if the air quality is good, moderate or in bad condition.
The jackson county public health department also tells me there are some people who are more at risk when it comes to wildfire
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