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May is both Asthma Awareness Month and Wildfire Awareness Month and a good time to encourage New Mexicans to use the 5-3-1 visibility method on smoky days to help protect their health.
According to the New Mexico Department of Health’s Asthma Control Program, asthma is one of the most common conditions affecting New Mexican adults and children. In New Mexico, about 10% of adults have asthma - about 162,000 people.
“New Mexicans can take simple steps to protect their health on days when the outdoor air quality is diminished due to smoke from wildland fires,” said Dr. Chelsea Langer, bureau chief of the Environmental Health Epidemiology Bureau. “Those steps include using the 5-3-1 visibility method, minimizing time outside and establishing a clean indoor environment.”
People with asthma can prevent attacks by avoiding triggers such as outdoor air pollution, following an asthma management plan and working with a healthcare provider to establish a medical regimen.
“Using visibility is an easy way to gauge air quality,” advised Deyonne Sandoval, section head of Asthma Control and Health Communications. “For people with asthma we recommend minimizing outdoor activity when visibility is less than five miles and staying indoors when visibility is less than three miles.”
New Mexico’s landscapes and geological features such as open spaces with nearby mountains make 5-3-1 visibility method ideal to use in most areas.
Visit https://nmtracking.doh.nm.gov/environment/air/FireAndSmoke.htmlt to learn how to use the 5-3-1 method and get more health tips.
Sunny, with a high of 97 and low of 71 degrees. Sunny for the morning, clear overnight.
where's neighbor john baake - to explain to us that contamination of natural resources really isn't that big a deal....and besides, it's a safe distance from where HE lives.
You must mean thank you to the professional lobbyists, because I'm not finding any professional scientist's or doctors involved in any of these decisions.
of course not - dear leader/elon musk/and the doge boys have cleaned out anyone who had legitimate credentials....nothing left here but worshippers of the orange overlord.
the trump regime is always looking for ways to ****** the rug out from under deserving citizens - so they can stabilize the precarious situation that our poor deserving billionaires find themselves in.
another shout out to our elected state office holders for going to bat for the everyday people of new mexico!
If Senator Martin Heinrich spear headed this legislation, that spear must've ended up in a cow somewhere around Clovis, because it never made it to D.C.
According to the Congressional record, the bill was introduced by Senator Marco Rubio, and co-sponsored by Senator Rick Scott, both of Florida.
another amazingly foolish statement on your part, neighbor.
Gotta love these activists, complaining that the area has passed from defacto control by para-military drug cartels, with orders to shoot anyone they see on site. To control by the US military with orders to warn and detain.
three cheers for the "escalation in the trump administration policy of militarization of the borderlands". most good americans always wanted to live inside a military zone - just like all the germans in post war berlin...and the delightful 38th parallel in korea.
Could it be much worse than living in or next to a national park, forest, or monument? Or even worse, a state park, forest, or wild life reserve?
The Federal and state land grabs have been astronomical in terms of the sheer amount of acreage seized.
The only thing I have been able to confirm as true is that Donald J. Trump is POTUS.
There are 4 sites reporting the security fence story; deepnewz.com, nriglobe.com, english.mathrubhumi.com, and theteenmagazine.com.