BULLETINS & HEALTH WARNINGS

PRESCRIBED BURN SMOKE CAUSES DANGEROUSLY HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE THAT LEADS TO FATAL HEART ATTACKS AND STROKES

People of all ages living in smoky areas should check their blood pressure regularly at home to protect themselves from fatal heart attacks and strokes. Prescribed burn smoke causes dangerously high blood pressure elevations in normal healthy people that leads to fatality without warning. Young people between the ages of 25 and 45 are reporting high blood pressure caused by the smoke and some have suffered heart attacks and strokes. There are no warnings or symptoms. People in smoky areas should check their blood pressure in the evening at home after the smoke lays down. Blood pressure may appear normal (130/78) at a doctor's office outside the smoky area but can easily elevate to stroke levels of 235/120 and higher while resting at home in the smoky area. Blood pressure monitors can be purchased at most pharmacies for about $50.00.

THE PHONY ADEQ SMOKE COMPLAINT PROCESS

The Arizona Department of Environmental Quality (ADEQ) is the state agency responsible for controlling air quality in the State of Arizona. They issue burn permits to the Forest Service and regulate smoke in sensitive areas. The ADEQ maintains a website where they encourage citizens to file online complaints. However, the ADEQ complaint process has proven to be nothing more than a misleading scam to suppress citizen health complaints while allowing Forest Service burns to rage out of control. The ADEQ does nothing to resolve citizen health complaints but does everything to suppress them. For instance, the ADEQ secretly hides a U.S. Forest Service employee in their Phoenix office allowing the Forest Service control of burn permits and citizen complaints. The Forest Service employee uses Arizona state resources to issue prescribed burn permits to his employer while suppressing citizen health complaints allowing his employer to burn more without proper regulation. In short, the secret scam allows the U.S. Forest Service to issue their own burn permits using state resources while suppressing citizen complaints that could stop the burns.