Any tips from those who have smoke conditions regularly? I have a yard full of trees and they are filtering it and creating oxygen. I am advising others to cover windows with bed sheets and small pet cages with wet rags to stop smoke penetration. Also this morning an article on Twitter from Canadian source. Some of the Nova Scotia fires were set. Remember the balloons that flew over our country recently? I am afraid this may be some of the nontraditional warfare that China uses. westernstandard.news/news/police-in-ns-say-some-fires-deliberately-set/article_d1b2002e-03b4-11ee-a186-13afdb8ce6ce.html?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=user-share --173.61.xxx.xxx

Ally, It's not the Chinese it's the Jewish Space Lasers. Remember those from the California wild fires? Marjorie Taylor Greene can refresh your memory in case you have forgotten. --68.46.xxx.xxx

You will get your turn also. Then you will be singing a different tune. --173.61.xxx.xxx

There are forest fires in the province of Quebec, Nova Scotia and Alberta where the military was called in to help along with help other provinces and jurisdictions outside Canada. As a result of climate change it is getting warmer here where less rain which has a effect on the forests here. Winters are less severe along summers temperatures reached highs never seen before where some provinces experienced highs of 40 degrees Celsius which never happened in the past. As result of the situation in the EU there are starting to use more coal fired electrical generating stations. The Eu is importing natural gas through liquid natural gas where starting to stock up for the winter. The EU is looking further away for coal and natural gas. So more situations like this are going to the norm where more forest fires, very hot weather. --74.220.xxx.xxx

I can only imagine where this thread will go. --73.230.xxx.xx

Ally, calm down. Other people's problems are not yours. Folks with smoke conditions will avail themselves to pertinent precautions they should be taking for themselves. --184.57.xxx.xx

Jim, my yard has smoke in it. I and my pets are in it. That's why I am asking. It's pretty much not getting into the house. I taped along the front door opening, pulled the curtains across the windows, shut the doors upstairs so the hallway is clear of smoke. I still have plastic on the windows from winter as it has been cool here. I have a large piece of egg crate stuck into the exhaust fan over the stove. There is another big cloud of it on the way so they are saying it will be worse overnight. Tomorrow the warning level is supposed to move from red back to orange. This house has lots of places where cold air drafts in. Has beamed ceilings which basically means more exposure where the second floor meets the brick wall. Has gambril roof so second floor is really an attic. Any tips appreciated. --173.61.xxx.xxx

We have it here too but it should clear off shortly. --64.246.xxx.xx

We just took an adult child to the airport in Philadelphia. As we drove past the city on I-95, we could see only the ghosts of the tall buildings those the smoke. The sun is a weird red color, too. --172.56.xx.xxx

Can you imagine your conspiracy theorist landlord telling you to cover your windows with bedsheets to protect against the Chinese war smoke? --174.193.xx.xxx

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Sandy, thank you. I will get one of those. I have a purifier but its crappy. 6x6, there seems to be air flow in here, nice cool air because smoke particles are bigger than air molecules which will come through tiny openings. That's my guess as it's ok and not stuffy. I am not cooking anything tonight just eating microwavable. I have over fifty large trees around the house and they cool the air, produce oxygen and filter out bad stuff. I helped a woman who was worried about her parrot by telling her to hang wet bed sheets between him and the place where the smoke was getting in and others told her to cover her windows with plastic. The only place I can see that it is coming in is a couple of holes in my office ceiling that the plumber didn't fill when he did a repair. It's coming in under the gutter, into the area under the bathtub and then into the space between the floor and ceiling but it's minimal, maybe a whiff now and then. --173.61.xxx.xxx

Forest fires are going to be more common and severe where in the province of Ontario there are 25 forest fires. The future is to adapt where houses, buildings need to air tight then until weather changes then system will work through. There is no border between weather conditions where weather systems move between both countries. Spray foam seals up any openings where any holes will keep out mice and rats. --74.220.xxx.xxx

Thank you for helping the woman with her parrot. May you, your own pets, trees, and region fare through this awful period of twenty-five fires as Robert in Ontario noted. Take care. --73.241.xxx.xxx

I've been running my DIY hepa filter fan made from a 20" box fan and 4 hepa furnace filters that screen down to half a micron or whatever the virus spec is. Learned about it during covid but it cleans the air well and had helped w allergies. My area wad purple zone for a little bit, then Ally got it. --172.59.xxx.xxx

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I keep all my windows closed and the windows have good weather sealing. I run the AC, and if it isn't warm enough to run the AC, I run the system fan only and that runs the air inside the house through the air filters and that is enough to keep the air inside the house bearable --76.178.xxx.xxx

Hope the smoke pases soon for anyone effected. --172.59.xxx.xx

If someone doesn't have central AC, taping HVAC filters over the window opening should help. Get the good ones. Amazing what they will do. --149.76.xxx.xx

So Jason and Larry, here is a link to a photo and text on the fires in Canada. Text says this is a backfire but the orignal fires were SET by someone unknown at this point. All the greenies pushing electricity are contributing to this as Robert, Ontario indicates. msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/this-helicopter-looks-like-it-started-massive-canadian-wildfires-that-are-spreading-and-impacting-air-quality-in-the-us/ar-AA1cfQAr?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531&cvid=144e0f4d87354cc993ed5f4338d99fdc&ei=12 --173.61.xxx.xxx

Hollis, I've seen where 4 filters were used to build a box held together with duct tape. Then the fan as a 5th side and a piece of cardboard as the sixth side that sits on the floor. That provides lots of surface area since the HEPA filters create a lot of resistance. It works really well but takes up quite a bit of floor space. --209.205.xxx.xx

Breathing easy here .... but I'll go out on the porch and smoke a cigar thinking of my clan in NY. --198.168.xx.xxx

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THEN (you have to go to the store it pick it up) they give you a 99.00 gift coupon that you can use anytime after that day for anything else in that big variety store,.So in essence its free, I don't think they limit the quantity.Or the time you have to use the coupons. --73.4.xxx.xx

John MI. Don't worry about the nuclear dust they will send down here. You will never feel it. It will take a few years for the disease process to get you. It will be like the radioactive lobsters from the nuclear sub that went down near the coast of Maine back in the day. It took years for people to notice when a President, his wife and their dog Millie, all came down with thyroid disease and had to lose their thyroids and go on supplements. Unfortunately, my neighbor's daughter ate lobster up there when the family went for a vacation years ago. She is almost forty now and they are handling her thyroid disease with modern techniques. It probably killed my cousins who live on the Cape in Orleans, MA. Both died of cancer. It's not overfishing that closed the lobster grounds. It's radioactive. Someone heard about the Bush family and the dog and asked her husband about that since he worked for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. He told her about the submarine then she told me. Then authorities started checking all the babies born down at the Cape. It will be like that, so don't worry. You will hardly notice. --173.61.xxx.xxx

I’m not John, but I’ll go on record as not worrying either. Thanks! : ) --172.56.xx.xxx

Add me to the not worried group! --108.56.xxx.xx

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It is not a laughing matter. Many people have difficulty breathing and are seriously affected by the terrible air quality. --71.246.xxx.xxx

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Thank you Ally for some insight. I am in RI and suffer from asthma. It has been very difficult breathing conditions for me. I am going to try some of your recommendations, and pass onto my tenants. And, yes the ocean state job lot I will look into for the good air cleaner. Thank you again. --73.4.xx.xx