By Amber Katz Special to At Home in the Northwest Wildfire season has begun early this year in King County, with smoke expected to be even worse than last year. This reality makes preparing the home for health and safety reasons essential. “My whole state is in the forecast for this summer being in the
It’s not your imagination, ‘smoke season’ has become real in Seattle
Almost all of the summer and fall “bad air” days since monitoring began were in the last six years, showing that wildfire smoke events in Seattle really are a recent phenomenon. (Kylie Cooper / The Seattle Times) By Danny Westneat Seattle Times columnist When the Spanish flu was pronounced over back in 1918, Seattleites