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http://articles.latimes.com/2013/feb/16/nation/la-na-fairbanks-air-pollution-20130217
Fairbanks area, trying to stay warm, chokes on wood stove pollution
Wood-burning stoves give the Fairbanks, Alaska, area some of the worst winter air pollution in the country.
February 16, 2013|By Kim Murphy, Los Angeles Times
NORTH POLE, Alaska ? In Krystal Francesco's neighborhood, known here as the "rectangle of death," the air pollution recently was so thick she could hardly see across the street. Wood stoves were cranking all over town ? it was 40 below zero ? and she had to take her daughter to the emergency room.
"She's crying because she can't breathe, and I can just see her stomach rapidly going in and out. Sometimes, she's coughing to the point of throwing up," Francesco said of her 2?-year-old daughter, Kalli, who uses two different inhalers. "Even in the house, the smoke is coming in and it smells awful."...