Arizona Fire Could Become Largest Ever
June 12, 2011
The Arizona fire raging since May 29 through more than 670 square miles so far, is threatening more than homes and property. According to the Associated Press, “The eye-stinging, throat burning haze of smoke spewing from a gigantic wildfire in eastern Arizona is beginning to stretch as far east as central New Mexico, prompting health officials to warn residents as far away as Albuquerque about potential respiratory hazards.”
The mammoth forest fire is largely uncontained, while the current forecast threatens gusty winds which will only fan the flames further.
Thousands of people have fled their communities and two major power lines that bring electricity from Arizona to West Texas remain threatened. The fires crossed the New Mexico state line Friday night as 4,400 firefighters continue to battle the blaze.
The fire so far is the 2nd largest in Arizona history but could eclipse the 2002 ‘Rodeo-Chediski’ fire as the flames roar on.
Tiny, sooty microscopic particles about 1/28th the width of a human hair, can get lodged “very, very deep into your system and are very difficult to expel” said the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality. Just because you can’t see the fire doesn’t mean that you won’t feel an effect from the smoke.
One protection from smoke inhalation are N95-rated respirator masks, an important addition to your preparedness supplies. Not only will this protect your lungs from smoke, but should a biological condition every arise, it will increase your odds of remaining healthy.
Credit: Firefighter Chris Francis. US Forest Service.
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Poison Air in Russia
August 11, 2010
(Kavkaz Center) Early in the morning of 7 August, the escape of foreign diplomats from Russia took epidemic proportions. It is possible that the diplomats, through the intelligence services of their countries, know something that is not yet known to the general public.
Unofficially, they speak about plague in Russia, but first of all, about sharply elevated radioactive background in the city, caused by destruction of atomic bombs in fires at nuclear weapons arsenals outside Moscow. According to unofficial information, warehouses of chemical and bacteriological weapons were also burnt down.
More than 500 wildfires burning in Russia as a consequence of 130 year record breaking heat are threatening (or have already) stirred up radioactive particles left over from the Chernobyl nuclear disaster which occurred during 1986 when a reactor at the nuclear power plant had exploded and released radioactive clouds over the western Soviet Union and northern Europe.
The fact that Canadian, Bulgarian, Polish, Austrian, German, and Dutch, embassies have evacuated, could indicate that the public is not being told the entire story.
Apparently, according to the Kavkaz Center report, a Hamburg newspaper, Die Welt, reported in a clear text format that the urgent flee of German diplomats from Russia was caused by radiation approaching Moscow.
As evidenced from satellite imagery, there have been fires burning in Sarov near or at an atomic research center plant, a facility that produces atomic bombs and weaponry. In addition to the danger of radiation exposure, the threat of burning bio-weapons (if they exist in the weapons facilities) may result in a toxic poison radioactive biochemical smog that could spread over population centers, causing extreme health risks.
The Austrian embassy went so far as to recommend that all Austrian citizens leave Russia immediately.
According to Moscow AFP, morgues in Moscow are overflowing with bodies as the daily mortality rate has doubled.
The question remains, is it just smoke in the air from the raging wildfires, or are the officials blowing smoke to cover up a bigger story?
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