![]() ![]() The IAFF wants governments to invest in better personal protective equipment to protect wildfire fighters from smoke. Neil McMillan is the director of science and research of the International Association of Fire Fighters. It's just I don't know if they can really design something for wildland fire." And you're out there doing 16-hour days and then you wear something when you're sleeping in your tent at night? Probably not. Sachs said outside of COVID, he was never offered any kind of respiratory protection. But, he's not sure there were any masks that would have worked well or held a tight seal in wildfire conditions. "When that smoke settles, you're breathing it in all night and you'll wake up with that wheeze and that headache." "Waking up with a kind of smoke hangover in the morning," he said. ![]() ![]() Sachs said the biggest thing he began to notice about acute smoke exposure was how it lingered in his body, especially when he and other FireRangers were often camped in close proximity to the fires they were fighting. That I might have to think about this down the road." But once you get over 30 and you start feeling the burn, it creeps up on you. "When you're 22 and doing it, you don't think about it. Even on a small initial attack, you're usually breathing smoke," Sachs said. After 13 seasons of fighting smoky wildfires in Ontario and B.C., Ian Sachs said his body started to feel the wear and tear. ![]()
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