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THE GORGE — Best friends and One Community Health (OCH) pediatricians Corinda Hankins and Joanne Smith are fighting medical misinformation one…
Gorge residents encouraged to reduce exposure to poor air quality conditions
Regions of Klickitat, Hood River and Wasco counties are being affected by unhealthy air quality brought about by increased wildfire smoke and excessive heat — especially at higher elevations as found in the Trout Lake, Glenwood, Goldendale, Bickleton and Roosevelt areas. In Oregon, DEQ air quality ranking placed Hood River (104) and The Dalles (116) air quality as “unhealthy for sensitive groups” (https://oraqi.deq.state.or.us/home/map). Pendleton, with an index of 155, was ranked as unhealthy.
DEAR DOCTOR K: My son was recently diagnosed with asthma. His doctor wants to put together an asthma “action plan.” What is that? DEAR READER: Asthma is a complicated and serious disease. It can behave differently from hour to hour and from day to day. A person with asthma needs a plan for what to do at each stage of the disease. I’ll describe the elements of the plan in a minute, but first a little background on asthma itself.
To the editor: As I was sitting in my yard in White Salmon this past weekend enjoying the warm sun and the crisp fall air, my attention was diverted to the sound of the train as it blasted it’s horn through Bingen. Although this is a common occurrence for residents of the gorge, the future effects of the increased train traffic are impossible to ignore.
Hood River Fire & EMS advises everyone with respiratory problems, asthma, reactive airway disease, or other reactions to air pollutants, specifically smoke, to seek shelter indoors in an air conditioned environment. The heavy smoke conditions are expected to continue throughout the night potentially causing difficulty breathing and difficulty traveling due to vision impairment.
