But, with hundreds of thousands of L.A. residents forced to evacuate their homes, the next best thing is a face mask or respirator to help avoid inhaling dangerous smoke particles. As we saw with ...

Short-term exposure to PM2.5 has been linked to premature death, hospital admissions, bronchitis, asthma attacks and other ...

Long Beach began distributing N95 respirator masks to eligible residents at all of its library branches and various community centers on Friday, Jan. 10, to help protect at-risk people from the ...