BAD-AIR ARIZONA

IF YOU VALUE YOUR LIFE, DO NOT GO TO ARIZONA

THE WHOLE STATE IS COVERED IN TOXIC WOOD SMOKE FROM PRESCRIBED BURNS & IT IS KILLING PEOPLE!!!   NO ONE WANTS TO LIVE IN A SMOKY ENVIRONMENT & PEOPLE ARE LEAVING ARIZONA IN RECORD NUMBERS.

If you are planning a move to Arizona or just want to visit, the information on this website could save your life.

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A few months ago, television news stations reported that fewer people were moving to Arizona than ever before and many others were moving out of the state. Officials are worried because the economy is suffering from the loss of tourist trade and growth, but they fail to properly understand or address the problem. People quit moving to Arizona because the state has become known as a toxic waste dump for Forest Service prescribed burn smoke that is causing serious illnesses and death.

Since early 2007, the U.S. Forest service has been burning thousands of areas of forest land daily while letting wildfires burn themselves out at the same time causing massive wood smoke to accumulate across Arizona. The smoke does not dissipate. It lingers over populated areas for months at a time causing serious life threatening health problems to millions of Arizona residents while state officials do nothing to stop it. In short, the Forest Service has been burning too much too often in Arizona putting the entire population at risk while the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality ignores citizen health complaints and continues issuing burn permits to the Forest Service knowing that the whole state is covered in smoke. They even issue permits to the Forest Service allowing wildfires to burn themselves out adding to the massive pollution. If you value your health, do not travel to Arizona. See information & photographs below:

The photograph below depicts massive amounts of prescribed burn smoke that covers Arizona without dissipating.  Please scroll down for more photos...

A recent  EPA study concludes that the smoke from one log equals the smoke from 4 to 16 cigarettes. Imagine what one week of Arizona air can do to your child's lungs!

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According to experts, prescribed burn and managed burn smoke is unfiltered wood smoke that is extremely dangerous to children and elderly people. The smoke is more carcinogenic than cigarettes and kills at least 40,000 adults and children every year? It contains a toxic soup of more than 4,000 chemical compounds of harmful gases and fine particle matter that go deep in the lungs and kill people, 69 of which are known or probable human carcinogens, including arsenic, particulate matter (soot), ozone (smog), sulfur dioxide, carbon monoxide, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), dioxin and various irritant gases such as nitrogen oxides that can scar the lungs. When smoke particle levels go up, people die.

Exposure to wood smoke increases children’s risk of lower respiratory infections such as bronchitis, pneumonia, and has been linked to psychological disorders and toxic damage to the nervous system and the brain in developing fetuses and young children. Studies show that wood smoke exposure can prevent the proper development of an unborn fetus, prevent the proper development of internal organs in infant children, depress the immune system and damage the layer of cells in the lungs that protect and cleanse the airways.

For vulnerable populations, such as elderly people, disabled people, people with asthma, chronic respiratory disease and those with cardiovascular disease, wood smoke is particularly harmful, even short exposures can prove fatal. The American Lung Association recently published an annotated bibliography of recent studies of the health effects of air pollution linking wood smoke and air pollution with lung cancer, heart attacks, strokes, high blood pressure, congenital heart defects, asthma, and brain damage. They identify diabetics, asthma patients, those with congestive heart failure, and children who play outdoors being at increased risk. 

The photographs below also depict the massive wood smoke pollution covering Arizona as far as the eye can see. Please scroll down this page for more...

DO YOU WANT YOUR CHILD BREATHING THAT AIR?

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TELL ARIZONA STATE OFFICIALS TO WAKE UP

PEOPLE ARE NOT STUPID & WILL NOT LIVE IN SMOKE

Did you know that state officials and television news reporters in Arizona continue ignoring the problem while Arizona merchants suffer from decreased tourism and lost revenue? It is true. Reporters and officials bury their heads in the sand ignoring prescribed burn issues while normal people see the smoke and warn each other using the Internet. Web sites and blogs are popping up everywhere warning each other about the dangers of prescribed burn smoke in Arizona. As a result, people quit moving to Arizona and began moving to other states leaving our economy in shambles. The same is happening to California, another grand supporter of prescribed burning. After all, no one wants to live in a cloud of smoke but Arizona officials are obviously too stupid to figure it out. 

If you live in Arizona and disagree, just take a drive to the Yarnell Hill Lookout Point above Congress Junction and look at the smoke covered valley. Take a drive from Phoenix to Tucson and look at the smoke covered mountains along the way. Or drive north through Prescott Valley, Paulden, Kingman and Bullhead City. If you cannot see the smoke, get your eyes checked because everyone else can see it including tourists who never return!

If you live in another state and plan a move to Arizona for your health, forget it. There is no good health in Arizona. The high smoke concentrations are killing people!!!