ArticleACS ES&T air2025
Volatile Organic Compounds Inside Homes Impacted by Smoke from the Marshall Fire.
Article in ACS ES&T air, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.
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9 citing papers in PubMed.
- Chemical complexity and enrichment in wildland-urban interface fire emissions: A case study of particulate matter, gas-phase pollutants, and ash from the 2025 Los Angeles fires.Journal of hazardous materials · 2026Article
- Quantifying the wildfire contribution to PAH concentrations and health effects.Environmental research letters : ERL [Web site] · 2026Article
- Laboratory Analysis of VOC Emissions from Structural Materials in Wildland-Urban Interface Fires.Environmental science & technology · 2026Article
- PAH exposure and associated health risks can be high at a fire site both during fire and long after the fire is extinguished.Annals of work exposures and health · 2026Article
- Time Scales of Gaseous Smoke Contamination Indoors from Real and Simulated Wildland-Urban Interface Fires.ACS ES&T air · 2026Article
- Post-Wildfire Indoor Pollution in WUI Areas following the 2025 Los Angeles Fires. Part I. Establishing Baseline Contaminant Levels Prior to Home Reoccupation.ACS ES&T air · 2026Article
- Emissions from burned structures in wildfires as significant yet unaccounted sources of US air pollution.Nature communications · 2025Article
- Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI) Smoke Yields of Nonmethane Organic Gases from Combustion of Small-Scale Residential Building Surrogates.ACS ES&T air · 2025Article
- Beneath the smoke: Understanding the public health impacts of the Los Angeles urban wildfires.Environmental epidemiology (Philadelphia, Pa.) · 2025Article
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Abstract
Wildfires at the wildland-urban interface (WUI) have been increasing in frequency over recent decades due to increased human development and shifting climatic patterns. The work presented here focuses on the impacts of a WUI fire on indoor air using field measurements of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) by Proton-Transfer-Reaction Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometry (PTR-TOF-MS). We found a slow decrease in VOC mixing ratios over the course of roughly 5 weeks starting 10 days after the fire, and those levels decreased to ∼20% of the initial indoor value on average. The VOC composition could be described by a combination of biomass burning emissions and indoor air composition. Comparisons were made between polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) distributions in the gas phase and ash, with differences observed in their distribution between each other and when compared to fresh fuel inventory measurements. Mitigation tests were conducted running air cleaners with activated carbon and opening windows to promote indoor-outdoor air exchange, with both methods showing a decrease greater than 50% for average VOC levels indoors while active. We compare our results with simulated smoke impact experiments that show the slow decline in VOCs must be understood in the context of indoor reservoirs, beyond just on surfaces, leading to the slow release of VOCs to indoor air.
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