Face-to-face with scorching wildfire: potential toxicant exposure and the health risks of smoke for wildland firefighters at the wildland-urban interface

• Main Authors: Jooyeon Hwang (Author), Ngee-Sing Chong (Author), Mengliang Zhang (Author), Robert J. Agnew (Author), Chao Xu (Author), Zhuangjie Li (Author), Xin Xu (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Elsevier, 2023-05-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Summary: As wildfire risks have elevated due to climate change, the health risks that toxicants from fire smoke pose to wildland firefighters have been exacerbated. Recently, the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) has reclassified wildland firefighters' occupational exposure as...