Residents in homes in the Carolina Forest Area described how their homes have filled up with smoke, setting off their ... through HVAC systems and as cabin air filters for vehicles.

Cabin air filters are designed to filter out 98-99.995 percent of airborne particulates down to 0.1-0.3 microns. Wildfire/forest fire smoke ranges between 0.4-0.7 microns according to the EPA.

However, if you drive in a particularly dirty area, such as where there have been forest fires creating a lot of smoke, you may want to check your cabin air filter more often (and probably your ...

Lenore Moen’s cabin was saved from the fire by the “heroic effort” of five community members, who watered the forest behind ...

Crews with the Helena-Lewis and Clark National Forest burned roughly 900 acres in the Soup Creek/Cabin Gulch area of ... Helena on Wednesday afternoon, and smoke will remain visible in the area ...

In 1947, Paul Hugo’s great-uncle built a small, 20-by-30-foot cabin in El Dorado National Forest near Lake Tahoe. It was his first time constructing a home, with only the help of his similarly ...

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According to the City of Forest Park, the national distributor of maintenance, repair and operations products is donating 150 smoke alarms to the Forest Park Fire Department and they’ll be insta ...

Two large-scale forest fires in Michaux Forest are no longer growing since the weekend, a DCNR spokesperson said Monday, and an area road has reopened for traffic. The fires at Hammond Rocks and ...