While the wildfires that swept across Los Angeles recently displaced over 180,000 people and consumed homes and businesses, the pervasive ...

“N95 masks are the type of face covering protection that I would recommend for somebody who is outside during the air pollution caused by wildfires,” said Marina Vance, PhD, an assistant ...

Beyond their role during pandemics, high-quality masks like N95 and K95 have become essential tools in combating the hazards of wildfires. For residents and first responders alike, these masks ...

An N95 mask blocks against 95% of fine particles ... The Air Quality Index is a numerical scale used to measure and report ...

Let’s talk about why you should be wearing N95 masks instead of cloth or surgical masks if you want to protect yourself from harmful particulates released by the Southern California wildfires.

Beltrán still takes Covid-19 seriously, as do organizers with Mask Bloc LA, a mutual aid group that Beltrán linked up with, which has also been visiting evacuation shelters to hand out N95 and ...

"These businesses falsely claimed, in the midst of a global pandemic, that their face mask was the equivalent of an N95 certified respirator," Samuel Levine, director of the FTC's Bureau of ...

With levels of sooty air pollution far too high across swaths of the Los Angeles area, Dana Benton is sleeping with a mask on ...